[DeepL Translation - needs review] Eduardo Mendoza's most ferociously funny novel. The adventures of a Roman detective in 1st century Nazareth.
In the first century of our era, Pomponius Flatus travels through the confines of the Roman Empire in search of some waters of portentous effects. Chance and the precariousness of his fortune lead him to Nazareth, where the town's carpenter, convicted of the brutal murder of a wealthy citizen, is to be executed. Much to his regret, Pomponio finds him...
