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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature . A respected midwife, Gugu 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 into enforcing China's draconian new family planning policy by any means necessary. Her blind devotion to the party line spares no one, not her own family, not even herself. Spanning the pre-revolutionary era and the country's modern-day consumer society, Mo Yan's taut and engrossing examination of Chinese society will be read for generations to come. "Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature. His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have". (Amy Tan). "One of China's leading writers...his work rings with refreshing authenticity". (Time). "His idiom has the spiralling invention and mytho-maniacal quality of much world literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie". (Observer). Mo Yan was born in in Gaomi County in Shandong province, China. He is the author of various novellas and short stories and numerous novels including Red Sorghum, The Republic of Wine, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and The Garlic Ballads. In he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Howard Goldblatt is the award-winning translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese into English. He has been awarded the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translation Association and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Features Summary A respected midwife, Gugu 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... Author Mo Yan (Author), Howard Goldblatt (Translator) Publisher Hamish Hamilton Release date Pages 400 ISBN ISBN

SHAOLIN KUNG FU HEROES Synopsis: The Masters of Kung Fu are back. Shaw Brothers superstar Chi Kwan Chuns Stars as a young Shaolin student who undergoes untold training from a grandmaster played by Leung Ka Yan (Victim) to enable him to defeat the ruthless Lama’s who have overrun his temple. This is one martial arts movie not to be missed.   Starring: Chi Kwan Chun Leung Ka Yan   Category: Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V  

DRUNKEN DRAGON Synopsis: Ruthless Master Doom (Philip Ko) seeks to dominate the martial world. To do so he must first possess the Magical 7 Star Armor, a vest which renders the wearer invincible. The final piece of the armor is kept by Kung Fu Mama (Chiang Sheng, “The Five Venoms”). The secret of the armor is passed on to her nephew Doggy (Sun Kwok Ming), a kung fu fanatic who has taken up residence with a crazy martial arts wizard (Leung Kar Yan, “Warriors Two”) who teaches Doggy the insane and dangerous Exciting Dragon technique in order to prepare him for a showdown with Master Doom. A martial classic movie not to be missed.   Starring: Phillip Kou Leung Kar Yan   Category: Martial Art   Age Restriction: 13 V

VICTIM Synopsis: The great SAMMO HUNG (CBS' TV series MARTIAL LAW) directs and stars in this renowned kung fu classic!!  Sammo is Chan, a naïve kung fu fanatic whose purpose in life is to find his ultimate opponent. He finally meets his match in a mysterious fighter (Leung Ka Yan), who eventually drags Chan into his own path of violent bloodshed and ruthless revenge.  Filled with big laughs and jaw-dropping fights from beginning to end, The Victim is classic kung fu fighting at its all-time best!    Starring: Sammo Hung   Category: Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V

SHAOLIN'S MOST WANTED Synopsis: A classic martial Arts movie... Meng Fei leads a group of deadly fighters to smash a Manchu stronghold guarded by the dreaded Bearded Brigadeer Leung Kar Yan. Helping Meng Fei on his mission is the Lama Phillip Ko, a Taliban kung fu fighter, and a Shaolin monk.  An action packed movie not to be missed!   Starring: Meng Fei Robert Lee   Category: Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V

ENTER THE DEATH GAMES Synopsis: He's fast and furious. Cougar swears to kill chig and his family as they have killed his parents. Cougar hires a japanese ninja and a thai boxer to seek revenge for their death. Cougar is however killed by wah. Cougar's brother palmer vows to seek revenge and will do all in his power.     Starring: Billy Chow Liang Yan   Category: Action, Martial Art   Age Restriction: 13 V

Metal window frame approximately 2mX1.5m, We remove it from the house and change to aluminium window. Sell as is. Need to be collected in Observatory, Cape town. Please call Yan @ to arrange.