《华盛顿邮报》日前发布了“2015年度值得关注的小说”榜单，莫言小说《蛙》上榜。该小说英文版2015年1月由维京出版社出版。
《蛙》主要讲述的是乡村医生“姑姑”的一生。“姑姑”的父亲是八路军的军医，在胶东一带名气很大。“姑姑”继承衣钵，开始在乡村推行新法接生，很快取代了“老娘婆”们在妇女们心中的地位，用新法接生了一个又一个婴儿。“姑姑”接生的婴儿遍布高密东北乡，可丧生于“姑姑”之手的未及出世的婴儿也遍布高密东北乡。姑姑一面行医，一面带领着自己的徒弟们执行计划生育政策。让已经生育的男人结扎，让已经生育的怀孕妇女流产，成了“姑姑”的两件大事。
小说通过讲述从事妇产科工作50多年的乡村女医生姑姑的人生经历，反映新中国近60年波澜起伏的农村生育史，描述国家为了控制人口剧烈增长、实施计划生育国策所走过的艰巨而复杂的历史过程。
除了莫言，石黑一雄、帕慕克、拉什迪等当代著名作家的作品亦在推荐清单中。
《华盛顿邮报》“2015年度值得关注的小说”：
BATS OF THE REPUBLIC
Zachary Thomas Dodson (Doubleday)
BEST BOY
Eli Gottlieb (Liveright)
THE BURIED GIANT
Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
CITY ON FIRE
Garth Risk Hallberg (Knopf)
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF PRIMO LEVI
edited by Ann Goldstein, translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf, Ann Goldstein and others (Liveright)
THE COUNTRY OF ICE CREAM STAR
Sandra Newman (Ecco)
DELICIOUS FOODS
James Hannaham (Little, Brown)
THE DISCREET HERO
Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THE DYING GRASS: A Novel of the Nez Perce War
William T. Vollmann (Viking)
EILEEN
Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press)
EPITAPH
Mary Doria Russell (Ecco)
FINALE: A Novel of the Reagan Years by Thomas Mallon (Pantheon)
FINDERS KEEPERS
Stephen King (Scribner)
FORGIVENESS 4 YOU
Ann Bauer (Overlook)
FORTUNE SMILES
Adam Johnson (Random House)
FROG
Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt (Viking)
GBH
Ted Lewis (SoHo)
GET IN TROUBLE: Stories
Kelly Link (Random House)
GIRL WAITS WITH GUN
Amy Stewart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A GOD IN RUINS
Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown)
GOLD FAME CITRUS
Claire Vaye Watkins (Riverhead)
GOLDEN AGE
Jane Smiley (Knopf)
THE GREEN ROAD
Anne Enright (Norton)
HONEYDEW
Edith Pearlman (Little, Brown)
I AM RADAR
Reif Larsen (Penguin Press)
THE ILLUMINATIONS
Andrew O’Hagan (FSG)
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
Lucia Berlin (FSG)
THE MARE
Mary Gaitskill (Pantheon)
THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES
Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster)
MY STRUGGLE: Book Four
Karl Ove Knausgaard (Archipelago)
OUR SOULS AT NIGHT
Kent Haruf (Knopf)
SAINT MAIZIE
Jami Attenberg (Grand Central)
THE SECRET CHORD
Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
A SLANT OF LIGHT
Jeffrey Lent (Bloomsbury)
A SPOOL OF BLUE THREAD
Anne Tyler (Knopf)
THE STATE WE’RE IN: Maine Stories
Ann Beattie (Scribner)
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD
Elena Ferrante (Europa)
A STRANGENESS IN MY MIND
Orhan Pamuk (Knopf)
THE STRANGLER VINE
M.J. Carter (Putnam)
THE SYMPATHIZER
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove)
THERE’S SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO DO
Charles Baxter (Pantheon)
THE TSAR OF LOVE AND TECHNO
Anthony Marra (Hogarth)
TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT NIGHTS
Salman Rushdie (Random House)
THE UNFORTUNATES
Sophie McManus (FSG)
THE VISITING PRIVILEGE: New and Collected Stories
Joy Williams (Knopf)
THE WATER MUSEUM
Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown)
WE THAT ARE LEFT
Clare Clark (HMH)
AND WEST IS WEST
Ron Childress (Algonquin)
WEST OF SUNSET
Stewart O’Nan (Viking)
A WINDOW OPENS
Elisabeth Egan (S&S)
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