by Juan Marsé · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447312061
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«El embrujo de Shanghai» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by RBA in 1997, in paperback (207 pages, in Spanish).
In the gray Barcelona of the postwar period, a fabulist narrator entertains two adolescents marked by illness and poverty with the story of a disillusioned hero who travels to the fascinating city of Shanghai in search of a criminal and in the care of a mysterious woman. A reflection on dreams, fiction and the power of the stories we tell.
The novel won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1993 and the Aristeion Prize in 1994.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Spanish literary fiction and for those seeking award-winning novels set in postwar Spain.
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.
