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.
