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A Communist in the Family
- Searching for Rewi Alley
Engelsk Paperback
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A Communist in the Family
- Searching for Rewi Alley
Engelsk Paperback

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This 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 Alleys 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 Rewis 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 Rewis early life, in an insightful meditation on the complex and always elusive relationship between memory and writing. By placing the man, Rewi, and his work in the context of his time, Sandys is able to illuminate the life of this extraordinary New Zealander in a way that is both historically vivid and relevant to the world of today. Her focus on the role poetry played in his life -- both his own and that of the Chinese poets he translated so prolifically -- provides moving glimpses of the man behind the myth. Threaded through A Communist in the Family are Sandys evolving insights into a nation that looms ever larger in the day-to-day realities of New Zealand and the world. The strange -- and strangely intimate -- link between the two countries Rewi regarded as home is one in which he played, and continues to play, a crucial role.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
324
ISBN-13:
9781988531601
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1988531608
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 jul 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
150mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
Otago University Press
Oplagsdato:
1 jul 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge