![]() My Yan is a gifted writer and as an example let me quote from a love letter written by Wang Gan (a friend of Tadpole) to Little Lion. ![]() The pages are full of references to modern Chinese political history and its cultural and social practices. Mo Yan himself grew up in on a farm near Gaomi township where the story is anchored and witnessed the excesses of the fifties and sixties. "Frog", on the other hand, offers a birds-eye view of Chinese people and their everyday struggles, as well as a peek into the domestic life of the billion. ![]() He won praise for his epic novel "Red Sorghum" where he highlighted the oppression carried out by the Japanese Army during their occupation of China in the 1930s and 1940s, and the war of resistance fought by the Red Army guerillas. ![]() Mo Yan (whose real name is Guan Moye) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 and, according to his award citation, is a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". MO Yan's Frog is a first-person novel written in the epistolary form- with letters (and a nine-act play)-narrated by a Chinese farmer turned soldier who witnessed the worst of the excesses of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and lived to see the changes brought about by the free-market policies of the 1970s: free enterprise, phenomenal urban growth and mass migration from rural areas. ![]()
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