Frog

Imprint: Penguin
Published: 02/07/2015
Length: 400 pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 130mm
Weight: 281g - In Frog, Mo Yan turns his attention to the subject of China's one-child policy. A celebrated midwife, skilled at delivering babies in difficult rural circumstances, finds herself at the blunt end of enforcement of the country's controversial one-child policy. Through a complex family story told through letters and narrative forms, Mo explores the emotional and moral toll of state-controlled family planning on a traditional community that places a high value on a large family.