Frog

Once Gugu was a respected midwife who used science not supersition to protect the lives of mothers and their babies. But after her lover turned defector, Gugu became a pawn of the state's one-child policy and now she uses her knowledge to conduct abortions and forced sterilizations. How did this woman who once loved life turn into the means of ending it?

An intricately woven story of China in the second half of the twentieth century, Frog is shocking, horrifying and occasionally funny - and a compelling portrait of a country few of us can barely imagine.

Author: Mo Yan

Publisher: Penguin Books

Released Date: 2009

ISBN: 9780241967324