La grande pagode

by Miguel Szymanski

Au Portugal, il y a bien longtemps que la fête est finie : depuis la signature d'un mystérieux accord financier avec la Chine, des ministres disparaissent, des livres contestataires sont retirés des librairies et des archives, et plusieurs cadavres refont surface. Tandis que ce réseau de corruption s'installe insidieusement au coeur de l'État, Marcelo Silva, l'ex-journaliste au passé tumultueux, fait son grand retour. Plongé malgré lui dans ce jeu d'échecs où chacun manoeuvre pour maintenir son pouvoir et ses privilèges, il comprend que la vérité pourrait bien être une arme aussi puissante que dangereuse...

288 pages, Paperback

Published March 19, 2025

About the author

Miguel Szymanski was born in Faro in 1966. He studied Economics, Law and Modern Literature. Writer and journalist, he works in Germany and Portugal, is a commentator of RTP and participates in the program Mundo sem Muros of RTP Internacional.
He started working at the Goethe-Institut in the early 1990s. He started in journalism in the economic press. In Portugal, he worked for the Grande Reportagem, O Independente and Expresso. He was editor of GQ magazine and journalist of Diário de Notícias. During the crisis, he returned to Germany, published his chronicles in the Die Tageszeitung in Berlin and was editor of the Öko-Test magazine in Frankfurt.
He is now correspondent for the weekly newspaper Der Freitag and the newspaper Portugal Post and also comments on what is happening in Portugal for several televisions and radios in Germany and Austria.
In Portugal, he published his first book, The Accidental Economist, in 2010. In Germany, he wrote Ende der Fiesta in 2014.