Frog av Mo Yan

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<p><b><i>Frog</i> is a richly complex new novel about China''s one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.</b><br><br><br>Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern medical knowledge with a healer''s touch to save the lives of village women and their babies.<br><br>After a disastrous love affair with a defector leaves Gugu reeling, she throws herself zealously into enforcing China''s draconian new family-planning policy by any means necessary, be it forced sterilizations or late-term abortions. Tragically, her blind devotion to the Party line spares no one, not her own family, not even herself.<br><br>Once beloved, Gugu becomes the living incarnation of a reviled social policy violently at odds with deeply-rooted social values. Spanning the pre-revolutionary era and the country''s modern-day consumer society, Mo Yan''s taut and engrossing examination of Chinese life will be read for