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El terrateniente Ximen Nao es ejecutado y baja al inframundo, donde le condenan de forma injusta a reencarnarse en un burro. Así comienza un ciclo de vidas, muertes y transmigraciones en distintos animales que le agotan pero nunca le hacen olvidar su existencia humana. En cada una de sus reencarnaciones sufre una nueva injusticia, que sirve para reflejar la vida cotidiana en un condado de la China comunista, mediante un relato al que no le falta el humor más ocurrente y ácido. Mo Yan se convierte en personaje, cita su propia obra y se ríe de sí mismo. Ese protagonista tan charlatán, incluso cuando vive como animal, puede encarnar al niño que fue Mo Yan cuando su madre le prohibía hablar fuera de casa para no buscarse problemas debido al ambiente represivo en que vivían. De ahí, el seudónimo de Mo Yan, que significa "No hablar" y que adoptó hace 30 años. El autor cuenta sobre esta obra que tardó 43 días en escribirla dibujando los caracteres chinos a mano, y 43 años en concebirla.

Als Mo Yans Jugendtraum, Lkw-Fahrer zuwerden, sich nicht erfullt, geht er zur Armee und beginnt zu schreiben. Wahrend er ein international angesehener Schriftsteller wird, macht sein ehemaliger Klassenkamerad als Geschaftsmann ein Vermogen. Dessen groe Liebe aber geht an den gesellschaftlichen Verhaltnissen zugrunde. In Mo Yans bisher personlichstem Buch spiegelt sich der Wandel der chinesischen Gesellschaft von der Zeit der Kulturrevolutionbis in die Gegenwart wider.

"Cina 1900: provincia dello Shandong. Sun Bing e un ribelle per caso, che si ritrova a guidare una rivolta di contadini a fianco dei Boxer, la societa segreta cinese nemica delle potenze imperialistiche straniere. Ma Sun Ring non e solo un contadino in guerra contro un potere piu grande di lui, e da cui sara atrocemente punito. È anche un artista, e un uomo che vive di canto e per il canto. Di fronte a lui, Zhao Jia, il vecchio boia grande esperto di torture, giunto all'ultimo lavoro della sua carriera. Come Sun Ring, con il canto, anche Zhao Jia possiede una tecnica antichissima. I due maestri si affrontano con la loro rispettiva arte cercando, nelle condizioni estreme, di portare a termine il capolavoro della propria vita e della propria morte. "

In Frog, Mo Yan turns his attention to the subject of China's one-child policy. A celebrated midwife, skilled at delivering babies in difficult rural circumstances, finds herself at the blunt end of enforcement of the country's controversial one-child policy. Through a complex family story told through letters and narrative forms, Mo explores the emotional and moral toll of state-controlled family planning on a traditional community that places a high value on a large family.

The author of Red Sorghum and Chinas most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize.In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yans position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nations controversial one- child policy.Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Guguthe beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communistis revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugus own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant.In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China.