by Juan Marsé · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788497931748
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«El embrujo de Shanghai» is the novel by Juan Marsé, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (248 pages, in Spanish).
In postwar Barcelona, Captain Blay, his head bandaged and obsessed with gas leaks, roams the neighborhood with young Daniel, accompanied by the ghosts of his dead children. They meet the Chacón brothers and Susana, a teenage girl with lung disease, daughter of a movie theater ticket seller and a fugitive revolutionary. The arrival of Forcat, the latter's comrade, brings the tale of a risky adventure in a Shanghai of cabarets, Nazis and femme fatales. A fable about dreams, defeats and the power of imagination.
Winner of the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1993. Part of the Contemporánea collection from DEBOLSILLO.
Recommended for readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and novels set in postwar 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.
