Hunting down a financial crime tycoon, Portuguese Miguel Szymanski paints a stinging picture of his country caught in the turmoil of the financial crisis. A festival of sharp humour, a massacre game is as terrifying as it is delicious.
Black Portuguese novels have rarely been translated into French. So you have to jump at the opportunity when it presents itself. In 2017 and 2020, Chandeigne’s Portuguese-speaking editions published two novels by Pedro García Rosado, journalist, translator and writer. Death on the Tagus And the Macau Club The first decade of the twenty-first century portrayed a Portuguese state in the hands of a caste, undermined from within, in which all powers, political, economic and media, are closely linked, with police and justice primarily in the service of the interests of this class. Miguel Szymansky’s novel, Card Castle which have just been published by Agullo, are put in the same perspective.
Miguel Szymansky graduated in economics, law, and literature, and worked as an economic journalist in Germany and Portugal. Currently working as a reporter for several German and Austrian media outlets, he started a series in 2019 featuring a former journalist turned Mali chief. Card Castle It is the first volume in this series set in the years following the 2008 financial crisis and culminating, in 2014, with the arrest of the Prime Minister on charges of tax evasion, corruption and money laundering.
Already subscribed? I continue
