{"product_id":"frog-9780143128380b","title":"Frog","description":"Before the Cultural Revolution, narrator Tadpole's feisty Aunt Gugu is a respected midwife in her rural community. She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic, and of an unimpeachable political background. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce beloved, Gugu becomes the living incarnation of a reviled social policy violently at odds with deeply rooted social values. Spanning the pre-revolutionary era and the country's modern day consumer society, Mo Yan's tatut and engrossing examination of Chinese society will be read for generations to come.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42826519019600,"sku":"9780143128380B","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780143128380-l.jpg?v=1785906294","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/frog-9780143128380b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}