by Juan Marsé · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401428173
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«El embrujo de Shanghai» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (249 pages, in Spanish).
In post-war Barcelona, young Daniel becomes embroiled in a plot of espionage and mystery that stems from an old love of his father and leads to a treasure hidden in Shanghai. The novel combines adventure (cabarets, gunmen, femme fatales) with memory, identity and the search for truth.
«El embrujo de Shanghai» was awarded the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1993 and the Aristeion Prize in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary Spanish literature, with an interest in post-war Barcelona.
Juan Marsé Carbó was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who used Spanish as his literary language. In 2008, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
