Samir Machado de Machado is an award-winning Brazilian writer, translator and graphic designer. He has won the Jabuti Prize for Best Entertainment Novel twice, for Dry Bodies (2020) and The Good Nazi (2023), and received the Minuano Literature Prize in 2018. His work has been translated into French, Italian and English. He was born in Porto Alegre in 1981. Rahul Bery translates from Spanish and Portuguese and is based in Cardiff. He has translated novels by David Trueba and Afonso Cruz, and his shorter translations have appeared in The White Review, TLS, Granta, Words Without Borders,Freeman's and Partisan Hotel. He was the British Library's translator in residence from 2018-2019.
Politics and crime united in an ironic adventure through history - both of the twentieth century and contemporary Brazil. A novel with the lightness of Agatha Christie's works and the depth of the most important moments in history. -- Michel Laub, author of 'Diary of the Fall'