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and reflects on how her perceptions of death

a cynical foreign correspondent

the government and foreign powersare all vying for power

But the discovery of the body casts a darker shadow

Frog Mark Stille and reflects on how herFrog 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