A Communist In The Family: Searching For Rewi Alley by Elspeth Sandys

A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China. Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, A Communist in the Family brings together Alley's story and that of his author cousin, Elspeth Sandys. In 2017, Sandys travelled to China with other family members to mark the ninetieth anniversary of Rewi's arrival in Shanghai in 1927. One strand of this book follows that journey and charts Sandys' impressions of modern China. Another tells the story of Rewi's early life, in an insightful meditation on the complex and always elusive relationship between memory and writing.

Publisher:	Otago University Press
Year:	2019
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781988531601
Condition:	Good
Description:	Book warped due to storage; some soiling to page edges.

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SKU: 1601432
Location: NZ Bio