by Juan Marsé · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426413147
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«El embrujo de Shanghai» is the novel by Juan Marsé published by Lumen in 2002 in hardback, with 240 pages, in Spanish.
In post-war Barcelona, little Daniel accompanies Captain Blay around the neighbourhood and meets the Chacón brothers and Susana, a sick girl. A companion of the fugitive Forcat, Susana's father, arrives to tell the children about Forcat's dangerous adventure in the Shanghai of cabarets, among Nazis, gunmen and femme fatales.
This edition belongs to the Biblioteca Juan Marsé collection. The work was awarded the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1993 and the Aristeion Prize in 1994.
For readers interested in contemporary Spanish fiction and in the portrayal of post-war Barcelona that characterises the work of Juan Marsé.
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.
