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A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley is a beautifully written multilayered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of midtwentiethcentury China. Partbiography, parttravel journal, partliterary 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 lifeboth his own and that of the Chinese poets he translated so prolificallyprovides 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 daytoday realities of New Zealand and the world. The strangeand strangely intimatelink 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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