Frog Contributor(s): Yan, Mo (Author), Goldblatt, Howard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0143128388 ISBN-13: 9780143128380 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Political |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 400 pages |
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Publisher Description: A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK From the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China's most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole's feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community. She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic, and of an unimpeachable political background. 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 society will be read for generations to come. |