{"product_id":"frog-book-mo-yan-9780525427988","title":"Frog","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP BOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Nobel-prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eRed Sorghum\u003c\/i\u003e and one China's most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49984886309137,"sku":"CIN0525427988A","price":4.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49998843117841,"sku":"CIN0525427988VG","price":4.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51765461713169,"sku":"CIN0525427988G","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0525427988.jpg?v=1751292976","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/frog-book-mo-yan-9780525427988","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}