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    Frog: A Novel
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    Frog: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    Frog: A Novel

    Written by Mo Yan

    Narrated by Graeme Malcolm

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    About this audiobook

    Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu-the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist-is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant.

    In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of Communist China.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 22, 2015
    ISBN9780698191884
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    Frog: A Novel
    Author

    Mo Yan

    Mo Yan (pseudónimo de Guan Moye, y que significa literalmente «no hables») nació en una familia de granjeros. Dejó la escuela muy joven, durante la Revolución Cultural, para trabajar en una fábrica. Posteriormente se alistó en el Ejército Popular de Liberación. Entre sus novelas destacan El sorgo rojo, llevada al cine por el director Zhang Yimou, La vida y la muerte me están desgastando o Grandes pechos, amplias caderas.

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    • 2/5
      The book itself was great-- I think "Proutian" was a good way to describe the style.

      This book, though, was written in a way difficult to comprehend aurally, so it just doesn't lend itself to the audiobook format. The reader was unnecessarily pretentious, too-- too overly dramatic all the time, and I can't help but tuning him out.
    • 1/5
      Once in a while, you come across a novel that is incapable of demonstrating features like plot, dialog or engagement. "The Frog", is one of those novels.
    • 4/5
      Humorously Proustian, and though yes, it's creepy and smacks of mock Freud, it somehow comes off warmer and more immediately gratifying and enjoyable than the first Hawkes (The Lime Twig) I'd read. Given this is a guy who boasts about writing novels with "virtually no plot," we'll see what I think as I read more of him...