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Shanghailanders / Juli Min.
A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time--beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past--exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781954118607 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 270 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Spiegel and Grau, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| Subject: | Families > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Intergenerational relations > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Time travel > Fiction. Shanghai (China) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Min | 31681010370351 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Starting in 2040 and going backwards to 2014, this brilliantly constructed exploration of marriage, relationships and the layered experience of time, follows the Yangs, a cosmopolitan Shanghai family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter and through the eyes of those closest to them. - Perseus Publishing
Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 * The New York Times Editorsâ Choice
âA thrilling, futuristic family drama that captures the joys, disappointments, and inside jokes of one Shanghai family in reverse chronological order. . . . By giving readers the gift of hindsight, Min shows how one enigmatic family falls apart and comes back together over several decades.ââTime
From a wise observer âof the ever-complicated matters of the heartâ (Kirstin Chen) comes an unforgettable debut novel about a changing family in a changing world.
To the outside world, Leo and Eko Yang and their three charming daughters seem to have it allâwealth, beauty, and brains to match. They live in the privileged world of international Shanghai while jet-setting to their secondary homes in France, Japan, and the United States. Â
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But Leo and Eko are at a crossroads. Their daughters are almost grown. Leo is nearing the end of a wildly successful career in Shanghai real estate, while Ekoâs reach as an artist is only growing. After twenty-five years, what are the bonds keeping them together? What are the foundations of a family?
Beginning in the year 2040 and moving backward through the present to 2014, Shanghailanders takes readers into the world of each of the Yangs, as well as the people in their orbitâa nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present. Along the way, Juli Min shows how a family makes and remakes itself over the years: what unites us and slowly drives us apart.
Gorgeously written and brilliantly constructed, Shanghailanders is the introduction of a major new literary talent.Â
