{"product_id":"9780143128380","title":"Frog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP BOOK OF 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eRed Sorghum\u003c\/i\u003e and China’s most revered and critically acclaimed novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize\u003cbr\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 tatut and engrossing examination of Chinese society will be read for generations to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011785179376,"sku":"9780143128380","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143128380_p0.jpg?v=1763657124","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143128380","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}