# Frog

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- Book: [Frog](https://www.bookquiver.com/mo-yan/frog) ([Frog.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mo-yan/frog.md))
- Authors: [Mo Yan](https://www.bookquiver.com/mo-yan)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Translated by: Howard Goldblatt
- Medium: audio
- Length: 11 h 35 min
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-958-7
- Published: 2016-07-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 11 h 35 min

## Description

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Frog by Mo Yan, read by Graeme Malcolm. Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012. 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. 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. 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 generations to come. 'Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have' Amy Tan 'One of China's leading writers . . . his work rings with refreshing authenticity' Time 'His idiom has the spiralling invention of much world literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie' Observer Translated by Howard Goldblatt