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Dragonfly Eyes

Dragonfly Eyes

Published: 7 Jan 2021

Paperback / softback, 384 pages

Recommended for age 11+

By Cao Wenxuan

Translated by Helen Wang

Published by Walker Books Ltd

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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 looks 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.

Tagged China , home and belonging and war and conflict