Review of 'Frog' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
He's not like Joseph Heller and certainly not like Franz Kafka. I mean, the writing (of the translation, at any rate) is OK, but having visited the same landscape in [b:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China|1848|Wild Swans Three Daughters of China|Jung Chang|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1440643710s/1848.jpg|2969000] and experienced how tragic it was, I couldn't then turn around and find it funny. Heller and Kafka are funny, but not by keeping the reader at a distance from the characters. I could appreciate the contrast of culture and ideology but not for the length of this book. Perhaps for the length of a single forced vasectomy.