Juan Marse, one of the most popular writers of modern Spain, became known to Russian readers through the book “Two-Faced Lover,” published by the Inostranka publishing house in 2001. Winner of prestigious international awards, Marse was among the finalists of the competition in 2005 Cervantes Prize, which is called the Nobel Prize for literature of the Spanish-speaking world. The novel “The Enchantment of Shanghai” was awarded the European Literary Prize Aristeion and the National Prize of Criticism (1994) and was filmed by director Fernando Trueba (Goya Award, 2002). The heroes of the book - lonely romantic teenagers dreaming of a miracle, and a mysterious stranger bursting into their dreary world, a crazy philosopher and an underground fighter going to Shanghai to destroy a Nazi criminal - they all become participants in exciting events that take place in the gloomy neighborhoods of Barcelona , then in charming Shanghai.