{"product_id":"frog","title":"Frog","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.\" \u003cb\u003e--Amy Tan author of \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club \u003c\/i\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947281776871,"sku":"9780143128380","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_c658d1b2-5cb4-49ca-92e8-d3d4118a2051.jpg?v=1775485883","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/frog","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}