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Based on actual events, the story is enthralling and will be attractive to fans of legal thrillers.-- ""Booklist"" An engrossing adventure. ... The Treasure of the Black Swan positively zips along as the reader becomes embroiled in the intricacies of the drama.-- ""Slings & Arrows"" A gripping account of one of the most dramatic cases of [writer Corral's diplomatic] career. Artist Roca's charming, Tintin-influenced artwork finds the drama and humanity in even the most mundane of clerical duties.-- ""Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)""

Based on actual events, the story is enthralling and will be attractive to fans of legal thrillers.-- Booklist A gripping account of one of the most dramatic cases of [writer Corral's diplomatic] career. Artist Roca's charming, Tintin-influenced artwork finds the drama and humanity in even the most mundane of clerical duties.-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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Paco Roca is an acclaimed Spanish comics artist whose translated works with Fantagraphics include The Treasure of the Black Swan (2022), Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas (2023), and Return to Eden (2024). Guillermo Corral has worked as a career diplomat since 1997. His career highlights include serving as general director of cultural policy and industries and as cultural attaché in Spain's embassies in Washington, DC, and Havana, Cuba. He has published a collection of short stories, Mientras crece el bosque, as well as numerous stories in journals such as Granta, Sibila, and Librújula. The Treasure of the Black Swan, a work of fiction based on real events that he witnessed firsthand, marks his debut as a comic book writer. Andrea Rosenberg is a translator who has worked on a variety of novels and graphic narratives in Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations of the graphic novels Run For It by Marcelo D'Salete and The House by Paco Roca won Eisner Awards in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

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