Shanghai Nights - Couverture souple

Marse Carbo, Juan

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1843431505 ISBN 13 : 9781843431503

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2006

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

For 14 year-old Daniel growing up in a poverty-stricken district of post-war Barcelona, a city where memories of Spanish agonising Civil War were still fresh, life was grey and rarely easy. His father had not returned from war and he lived with his mother, filling in time between school and starting work as a jeweller's apprentice by looking after an elderly, eccentric, retired sea captain.

All that enlivened the daily grind of economic hardship and dull routine were the occasional cross-border raids over the Pyrenees made by Republican sympathisers determined to destabilise Franco's government, and visits to the cinema. But there were also the magical stories told by the many colourful characters in this novel that are interwoven with the main narrative. Chief among them is that of Kim and his thrilling adventures in a mythical Shangai populated by gun-runners, ex-Nazis, beautiful women and sinister night club owners.

Dreams and reality fuse in this enchanting tale of human spirit and imagination triumphing over misery told by a master craftsman.

Quatri�me de couverture :

In impoverished post-war Barcelona, fourteen-year-old Daniel fills in time between school and starting work as a jeweller's apprentice by taking on the care of an elderly and eccentric sea captain, whose campaign against a suspected gas leak exposes him to ridicule of his neighbours.

With little to enliven the grey atmosphere and dull routines of the battle-scarred city, Daniel becomes increasingly drawn to the beautiful and bedridden Susana, who spends her days dreaming of seeing her fugitive father, Kim, again. When a mysterious stranger arrives at the villa with magical tales of the Shanghai underworld and Kim's noble exploits there, both Daniel and Susana suppress their questions and willingly fall under his spell.

An intoxicating tale of human spirit, Shanghai Nights is a compelling, illuminating novel about children that has a great deal to say about adulthood.

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