{"product_id":"frog-a-novel-isbn-9780143128380","title":"Frog: A Novel","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48534252257509,"sku":"NP9780143128380","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143128380.jpg?v=1773240641","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/frog-a-novel-isbn-9780143128380","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}