Dragonfly Eyes - Hardcover
by Cao Wenxuan
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Cao Wenxuan, Helen Wang (Translator)Audience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2022-08-16Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9781536200188ISBN-10:1536200182UPC:9781536200188Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, People & Places, FamilyBook Topic:Asia, MultigenerationalAward:2023 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honor Book - Children's AwardSize:8.60 x 6.00 x 1.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC9WVKKZ7G
A 2023 Batchelder Honor Book 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 it's because Ah-Mei is the only girl grandchild. Or maybe it's 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 Nainai's European heritage and interracial marriage. In this time of political upheaval, Ah-Mei and her family suffer much--and 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 China's most esteemed children's authors takes the reader from 1920s France to a ravaged postwar Shanghai and through the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9781536200188ISBN-10:1536200182UPC:9781536200188Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, People & Places, FamilyBook Topic:Asia, MultigenerationalAward:2023 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honor Book - Children's AwardSize:8.60 x 6.00 x 1.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC9WVKKZ7G
Cao Wenxuan, author of the acclaimed Bronze and Sunflower, is the recipient of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award. He has also won several of China's important awards for children's literature. A professor of Chinese literature at Peking University, Cao Wenxuan has seen many of his books become bestsellers in China, and his work has been translated into French, Russian, German, Japanese, and Korean.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
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🏆 2023 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Honor Book - Children's Award
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