ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Frog' is a richly complex novel about China's one-child policy. 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 sterilisations or late-term abortions. Tragically, her blind devotion to the party line spares no one, not her own family, not eve...Read More