Author(s): Wenxuan, Cao, Wang, Helen,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 07/01/2021,
Pagination: 384 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Walker Books Ltd,
Published By: Walker Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781406378252

Description:
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.