Juli Min

Longlisted for the 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 * THE NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice * PEOPLE 10 Best Debut Fiction Books of 2024'Thrilling' TIME'Simmering with secrets and tensions' THE NEW YORK TIMES'Quick-footed and captivating . . . a perfect holiday read' MONOCLELeo and Eko Yang and their three daughters seems to have it all - wealth, beauty and brains; a privileged life in the world of international Shanghai, Paris and Boston. But as the children become adults and their parents celebrate twenty-five years of marriage, the Yangs are at a crossroads. What bonds still keep 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 intimacies and desires of each of the Yangs, as well as the people in their orbit - a nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present.As we watch this changing family in their changing world, universal constants remain: love is complex and family will always be stubbornly connected by blood, secrets and longing. Along the way, Min shows how a family makes and remakes itself over the years, what unites us and slowly drives us apart.'Min has established herself as a sharp chronicler of contemporary China - and of the ever-complicated matters of the heart' Kirsten Chen, author of COUNTERFEIT'Remarkable . . . Having knowledge of these characters' futures before we know about their past makes stumbling on their bygone days all the more touching' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Sophisticated and affecting' THE LOS ANGELES TIMES'Elegant and crystalline' GUARDIAN

Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 * The New York Times Editors' Choice "A 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."--Time From a wise observer "of the ever-complicated matters of the heart" (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 all--wealth, 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. 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 Eko's 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 orbit--a 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.

Shanghailendinger byr på en utforskning av ekteskap, samliv og den lagdelte opplevelsen av tid i revers – samt et spennende bilde av Shanghai, den kanskje største og mest kosmopolitiske byen i verden.Debutromanen til koreansk-amerikanske Juli Min skildrer en velstående familie i Shanghai, men bakover i tid – fra 2040 og tilbake til 2014. Gjennom tiden som går baklengs, utforsker forfatteren alderdom, ungdom og barndom i en av verdens største og mest dynamiske metropoler. Grepet skaper en egenartet spenning, siden hvert nye kapittel avdekker en del av bakgrunnen for det som skjedde i det forrige.Etter hvert som årene spoler tilbake til 2014, skildres livet til flere generasjoner av Yang-familien, også gjennom øynene til mennesker som omgir den – blant annet en barnepike fra bygda, en privatsjåfør med sans for fart og fare, og en bestemor med minner fra fortiden som er hentet fra nåtiden. Vi får glimt av en fremtid da vannet stiger og en forestående apokalypse virker nærere.

Debutromanen til koreansk-amerikanske Juli Min skildrer en velstående familie i Shanghai, men bakover i tid – fra 2040 og tilbake til 2014. Gjennom tiden som går baklengs, utforsker forfatteren alderdom, ungdom og barndom i en av verdens største og mest dynamiske metropoler. Grepet skaper en egenartet spenning, siden hvert nye kapittel avdekker en del av bakgrunnen for det som skjedde i det forrige.Etter hvert som årene spoler tilbake til 2014, skildres livet til flere generasjoner av Yang-familien, også gjennom øynene til mennesker som omgir den – blant annet en barnepike fra bygda, en privatsjåfør med sans for fart og fare, og en bestemor med minner fra fortiden som er hentet fra nåtiden. Vi får glimt av en fremtid da vannet stiger og en forestående apokalypse virker nærere.Shanghailendinger byr på en utforskning av ekteskap, samliv og den lagdelte opplevelsen av tid i revers – samt et spennende bilde av Shanghai, den kanskje største og mest kosmopolitiske byen i verden

Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 * The New York Times Editors' Choice"I think love is when you think you need someone for your survival. Survival, defined broadly.""The way you think, sometimes . . .""The way I think, what?""It . . . surprises me. Yoko, we need each other. Family - family is all we have."'This bold experiment . . . pays off beautifully' Guardian'Simmering with secrets and tensions' The New York Times'Quick-footed and captivating . . . a perfect holiday read' MonocleWhile the years rewind from 2040 to 2014, Shanghailanders brings readers into the shared and separate lives of the Yang family, parent by parent, daughter by daughter, and through the eyes of the people in their orbit-a nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present. As they build their lives in this old, futuristic city, we see Leo, his wife Eko and their daughters Yumi, Yoko and Kiko trip over their own desires in their bids to connect with one another, in their attempts to be a family.Though the world shifts and brings change for each of the Yangs, universal constants remain: love is complex and family will always be stubbornly connected by blood, secrets and longing.Dazzlingly constructed and achingly resonant, Shanghailanders is an unforgettable exploration of everything that follows 'happily ever after' and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.'Min has established herself as a sharp chronicler of contemporary China - and of the ever-complicated matters of the heart' Kirsten Chen, author of COUNTERFEIT'Never stops surprising the reader' Jiaming Tang, author of CINEMA LOVE'Audacious' Washington Post'Colourful and ambitious' Dazed

'The future contained in the past, the past contained in the future . . .'2040: Leo Yang - handsome, distinguished, a real Shanghai man - is on the train back to the city after seeing his family off at the airport. His wife, Eko, and their two eldest children, Yumi and Yoko, are headed for Boston, though one daughter's revelation will soon reroute them to Paris.2039: Kiko, their youngest daughter and an aspiring actress, decides to pursue fame at any cost, like her icon Marilyn Monroe.2038: Yumi comes to Yoko in need, after a college-dorm situation at Harvard goes disastrously wrong.As the years rewind to 2014, Shanghailanders brings readers into the shared and separate lives of the Yang family parent by parent, daughter by daughter, and through the eyes of those in their orbit. Through the speed, technology and history of this old, futuristic city, we catch glimpses of an uncertain, unknowable future.Whatever may change, universal constants remain: love is complex, life is not fair and family will always be stubbornly connected by blood, secrets and longing. Brilliantly constructed and achingly resonant, Shanghailanders is a mesmerising exploration of marriage, relationships and the layered experience of time.