by Juan Marsé · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401385001
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«El embrujo de Shanghai» is the novel by Juan Marsé published in 1993 by Plaza & Janés in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).
Set in postwar Barcelona, it follows Daniel, a teenager whose grey life is altered by the return of a maquis. The stories he inspires lead Daniel to imagine an exotic and dangerous Shanghai, while the novel reflects on the need for illusion and fiction to make a miserable world habitable.
It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1993 and the Aristeion Prize in 1994. It was number 1 in the Ave Fénix (major series) collection from Plaza & Janés.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and historical fiction, as well as for those seeking a reflection on memory and imagination.
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.
