[DeepL Translation - needs review] Pepe Carvalho was born as a literary character with this novel and today he is celebrating his fiftieth birthday. We must celebrate it in style: reading it with joy in honor of its creator, the immortal Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, a prolific writer like few others.
I Killed Kennedy
was a work that opened spaces for new ways of understanding literature in Spain. Presented at the time as an apparent adventure novel, in reality it is a settling of scores to the...
This is sorta a joint review with the next book in the series, Tatuaje, because while this one, Yo mate a Kennedy, may be the first Pepe Carvalho book, the series doesn't really start with it.
Yo mate a Kennedy is the hardest book I've read as I approach 4 million words (I read it a little shy of 3.5 million words). Despite the title it's less thriller and more political satire skewering america and spain. Think Dr Strangelove, but narrated by a spanish ex-marxist working for the CIA.