[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...
Barcelona’s famous detective
This is one of many popular books about the fictional private detective Pepe Carvalho, that were published between the 1970s and 1990s.
Carvalho is an interesting and complex character, a former communist who has lived through the Franco years. Description of the political and cultural situation of late 20th century Spain is typical in the books. He’s famous as a lover of good food, and each novel has a detailed description of one of his creations.
In this book, Carvalho is hired to investiga