Fiction
The Light in Beijing
by Francisco José Viegas
Description
A body hanging from the pillars of the D. Luís Bridge, in Porto, challenging a transforming, cosmopolite, and tourist-filled city. A woman’s cadaver abandoned in the hills of the Douro — evoking a series of crimes in the Porto underworld. What seem like two independent occurrences end up revealing connections that aren’t surprising for Detective Jaime Ramos — who is simultaneously facing his Communist past, an inquiry into his work in the Police force, a strange request from an old friend and a search for a missing person, which will take him from the streets of Porto, Minho and Douro all the way to Beijing.
A dense novel in which Jaime Ramos, now in his ninth book, questions what it means to be Portuguese in a country dominated by complicit elites, endogamy and occult powers.
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Author Biography
Francisco José Viegas is a lecturer, journalist and publisher, and editor of LER magazine. He worked with several newspapers and magazines, hosted various radio programmes and television shows. He is the editor-in-chief of the most prestigious Portuguese publishing house, Quetzal Editores.
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- Publisher Porto Editora
- Orginal LanguagePortuguese
- ISBN/Identifier 9789720032539
- Publication Country or regionPortugal
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 17.70 EUR
- Pages400
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleA Luz de Pequim
- Copyright Year2019
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