Pomponio Flato is a Roman philosopher seeking a miraculous waters by the confines of the empire at the time of Augustus. After various vicissitudes of the Middle East comes with no possession in the Palestinian town of Nazareth to seek help from the Roman tribune, his acquaintance. There is as a private investigator hired by a boy named Jesus in order to prove the innocence of his father, a carpenter who will be executed on the cross for the murder of a wealthy merchant. Entertaining and original book. Is written in a comic tone, imitating the style of the classical writers with a glossary full of cultism and latinejos which does not hinder the reading, but on the contrary it is easy to read. Despite
style with touches of humor clearly define the novel as the detective genre in a historical environment. It also follows a subtle satire to the Roman and Jewish principles of our age, but especially to the Christian religion would emerge a few years later and misrepresent the facts. The author walks a fine line between irreverence and clear recognition of the divinity of Jesus, but does not fall toward either side, through the prism Roman rational (and he thinks it fair) with which the protagonist investigates the facts.
I enjoyed reading and I liked more than the odd "No news from Gurb" just Mendoza.
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