Shanghailanders

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The stylish, kaleidoscopic debut novel about sisterhood, love and Shanghai, from the Editor-in-Chief of The Shanghai Literary Review

Moving backwards in time from 2040 to 2014, Shanghailanders beautifully unfurls the story of the Yang family against the background of an ever-evolving Shanghai. Rotating perspectives through each member of the family as well as those who live in their orbit, the novel shows how secrets both separate and unite a family, irrevocably affecting the lives they touch.

Shanghailanders is more than an illuminating rendering of family; it also paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of Shanghai itself. From the roads taken by a driver swerving past self-driving cars of the future, to the intimate apartments where the family make bids to connect - the speed, the technology and the history of this old, futuristic city shine through the novel to form the foundations of this exceptional debut.

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Shanghailanders is a wonderful, wildly smart and compelling book. If Shanghai is the future, this terrific novel knows it all. We follow a glorious cluster of characters as they trip over their own longings, in this fiction of real astuteness. * Joan Silber *
Bracing, thrilling, and breathtakingly smart, Shanghailanders is more than a spectacular debut - it offers a new way of seeing. Not just of Shanghai, but France, Japan, America, and every last corner of its characters' minds. Every page is a new discovery, but the book's best is Juli Min herself. Absolutely extraordinary. * Liam Callanan *
Lyrical and haunting, SHANGHAILANDERS explores the enduring mysteries of family. With its inventive structure-the years spooling in reverse, told through rotating perspectives-Juli Min movingly portrays the Yangs and their many seasons of love and loss in a metropolis that perpetually rises, falls, and emerges from the ashes. An extraordinary debut. * Vanessa Hua, FORBIDDEN CITY *
Marvellous * Laura Zigman *

Author Bio

Juli Min is the Editor-in-Chief of The Shanghai Literary Review, an annual literary magazine published in cooperation with Duke University. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Real Life, Hazlitt and elsewhere. She has a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Harvard University and an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson. She has been awarded a Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency for 2023. She lives in Shanghai.