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Title: Frog
Author: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt - translator
Narrator: Graeme Malcolm
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-28-16
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Frog by Mo Yan, read by Graeme Malcolm.
Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.
Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies.
After 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. Once beloved, Gugu becomes the living incarnation of a reviled social policy violently at odds with deeply rooted social values.
Spanning the prerevolutionary era and the country's modern-day consumer society, Mo Yan's taut and engrossing examination of Chinese life will be heard for generations to come.
Translated by Howard Goldblatt.

Critic Reviews:
"Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have." (Amy Tan)
"One of China's leading writers...his work rings with refreshing authenticity." (Time)
"His idiom has the spiralling invention of much world literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie." (Observer)

Members Reviews:
this is a really great novel. The play at the end was in ...
Although it doesn't get as far out there as some of his other books, this is a really great novel. The play at the end was in some places my favorite part of the book and in others my least favorite. One of the things I real liked was how he gave meaning to the title and how that shifted in the book. The translation makes the language really nice and isn't just a word for word deal without consideration of context. As with a lot of Mo Yan stories, a little knowledge of Chinese communist history is essential, and an eye for layered meanings is helpful.

Wa Wa!
Although this book has the classic, hyperbole, grand and dramatic style of story telling which I find in most Chinese literature, this one seems to have the most modern flavor. Compared to other books by Chinese authors (that I have read, except Ha Jin), this one is relatively short and quite tightly woven and rather poignant, providing moral and political questions through the issue of population control by forced abortion. The vivid images and word plays as well as the letter format, to a Japanese writer, (I am assuming Kenzaburo Oe???) and the decision to end the book with the play that ends with more question and answers are all that add more complexity and artistic structure to the story.

Fascinated but missing something...can't put my finger on it
I enjoyed most of this book but found it really difficult to keep reading - this could be because it's a translation so some of the story felt stilted and uncoordinated. The content was eye opening and so interesting and heart breaking - would recommend a read for content - it has sparked my interest to read more of his work. The play at the end went right over my head!

... I have to warn that it is not an easy read.