by Juan Marsé · Círculo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422647348
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«El embrujo de Shanghai» is the contemporary fiction novel by Juan Marsé, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (237 pages, in Spanish).
Set in postwar Barcelona, the novel follows teenager Daniel and his friend Susana, whose routine is shaken by the arrival of a maquis. Through them, the author explores the need to believe in something, the fleeting nature of those refuges, and how invented stories can make reality more bearable.
Published in 1993, the novel was awarded the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana and the Aristeion Prize.
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.
