Frog - Softcover

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Frog is a full-length masterpeice that touches Chinese people to their very soul. After over ten years preparation, Mo Yan writes the book with great concentration in four years and modifies it for three times. It is first published in 2009. It is consist of five letters, which are written by Tadpole, a playwright, to Sugiya Yoshihito, a Japanese writer, four feature-length narrative novels and a drama, which greatly expands the expression space of novel in art. The life experiences of aunt, a female doctor in the village who has engaged in the work of obstetrics and gynecology for fifty years, constitute the main thread of the work as a whole. With vivid and moving details and self-reflection, the book shows the 60 years ups and downs of the reproductive history in China, exposes the current confusion on fertility problems, and, at the same time, makes a profound analysis of the humble,embarrassing, confused and contradictory soul world of Chinese intellectuals, with Tadpole the narrator as their representive.

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