DRAGONFLY EYES

From acclaimed Chinese author Cao Wenxuan, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, comes a compelling family saga spanning fifty years and three generations.Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai, share a rare bond. Maybe its because Ah-Mei is the only girl grandchild. Or maybe its because the pair look so much alike and neither resembles 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 seems suspicious of Nainais European heritage and interracial marriage. In this time of political upheaval, Ah-Mei and her family suffer muchand when the family silk business falters, they are left with almost nothing. Ah-Mei and her grandmother are resourceful, but will the tender connection they share bring them enough strength to carry through? This multigenerational saga by one of Chinas most esteemed childrens authors takes the reader from 1920s France to a ravaged postwar Shanghai and through the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution. For Ages 9 and up.