by Juan Marsé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401620102
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«El embrujo de Shanghai» is the historical fiction novel by Juan Marsé, published by Plaza & Janés in 1994, in paperback (204 pages, in Spanish).
Post-war Barcelona: young Daniel accompanies Captain Blay, tormented by the ghosts of his children, and meets Susana and the Chacón brothers. An old friend of Susana's father brings a tale of adventures in a sordid Shanghai, with dangers, espionage and cabarets. The novel plays with the boundary between the real and the imagined as an escape.
It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana (1993) and the Aristeion Prize (1994).
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction seeking stories about the post-war period and the blend of reality and dreams.
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.
