Frog Author: Mo Yan Series: The Complete Works of Mo Yan

One of the most famous works of Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The winner of the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize, this masterpiece has sold over 5 million copies.

Selected by Southern Weekend as the 2009 "Cultural Originality List Annual Fiction Book Tribute Work".

This book is dedicated to the millions of readers who have experienced family planning or were born in the era of family planning.

Mo Yan spent more than ten years in the making, four years writing, and three revisions on this long novel, which he devoted himself to creating and touches the most painful part of the Chinese soul.

It reveals the current chaos in China's fertility issues and analyzes the humble, awkward, entangled and contradictory spiritual world of Chinese intellectuals represented by the narrator Tadpole.

Others are guilty, and so am I; reflecting on the pain of history shows respect and compassion for life.

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Frog is a soul-touching masterpiece dedicated by Mo Yan to the millions of Chinese who have experienced family planning and were born in the era of family planning. The work won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Award and has now sold more than 5 million copies. The novel consists of four long letters written by the playwright Tadpole to the Japanese writer Yoshito Sugitani, the self-narration of "I" and a drama. It tells the ups and downs of the life of "my" aunt Wan Xin, a rural female doctor who has been engaged in obstetrics and gynecology for more than 50 years; it tells the sorrow and joy, happiness and joy, gains and losses brought to people by "birth" under the background of the family planning policy. The novel uses vivid and touching details and self-reflection to show the ups and downs of the "birth history" of New China in the past 60 years, exposes the chaotic scene on the issue of birth, and also deeply analyzes the humble, embarrassed, entangled and contradictory soul world of intellectuals represented by the narrator Tadpole.

"Many people have asked me: What is this novel about? I said: It is about people. It is about the life legend of 'Aunt', a rural gynecologist who has been practicing medicine for more than 50 years. She describes her joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, her inner conflicts, her reflections and confessions, her greatness and generosity, her humility and narrowness. It describes her harmony and conflict with the times, and the confrontation and unity between her professional ethics and the mission of the times. It seems to be about one person, but in fact it is about a group of people." - Mo Yan