Eduardo Mendoza: El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato (2008)

Translation: Jana Novotná, Garamond 2009

In this witty parody of a historical novel, hagiography and a detective story we meet Pomponius Flatus, who in the 1st century AD travel in the Near East looking for magic water. In Nazareth a young boy named Jesus addresses him, asking him to save his father – a carpenter, who has been accused of murder of a wealthy Roman citizen…