The amazing journey of Pompolino flatus

The most fiercely funny Eduardo Mendoza's novel. The adventures of a Roman detective in the Nazareth of the 1st century.

In the first century of our era, Pomponio Flato travels around the confines of the Roman Empire in search of waters of portentous effects. Random and the precariousness of his fortune carry it to Nazareth, where it will be executed the Carpenter of the village, convicted of the brutal murder of a wealthy citizen. Much to his regret, Pomponio is immersed in the solution of the murder, hired by the most extraordinary customers: the Carpenter's son, a child ingenuous and singular, convinced of the innocence of his father, peaceful and taciturn man in appearance, however, hiding a big secret. Cross-historical novel, thriller, hagiography and parody of all of them, here fit many novels consumer accounts, and builds a new modality of the most characteristic of Eduardo Mendoza gender: the original and ironic, plot that ends in a literary satire and a hilarious fictional creation.