Frog

A Novel

Autor*innen

• Yan Mo
• Howard Goldblatt

Parameter

• 384 Seiten
• 14 Lesestunden

• Familie
• Historische Romane
• Kriege
• Kriegsliteratur
• Politik

Mehr zum Buch

Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation’s controversial one-child policy. <i>Frog </i>opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu—the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist—is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu’s own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Hardcover