Description
| Product ID: | 9781406378252 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Dragonfly Eyes |
| Authors: | Author: Cao Wenxuan, Helen Wang |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A family saga spanning fifty years and three generations, which takes the reader from the France of the Golden Age to poverty-stricken post-war Shanghai via the re-imagined rural China of the Cultural Revolution. Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai, share a rare bond. Maybe because Ah-Mei is the only girl grandchild, or maybe because the pair look so alike – and because neither look much like the rest of their Chinese family. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a hard place to grow up, especially when racism and bigotry are rife, and everyone is suspicious of Nainai’s European heritage. Ah-Mei and her family suffer much in this time of political upheaval, and when the family silk business falters, they are left with almost nothing. But Ah-Mei and her grandmother are resourceful, and they have one another – and the tenderness they share brings them great strength. A family saga spanning fifty years and three generations, which takes the reader from the France of the Golden Age to poverty-stricken post-war Shanghai via the re-imagined rural China of the Cultural Revolution. |
| Imprint Name: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-01-07 |
