Carlos Zanón of Barcelona (1966) occupied the cultural pages of the international press a few months ago, because he was the chosen one to continue the wanderings of Pepe Carvalho. Meanwhile, Taxi (Salamandra, October), “the story of a taxi driver who follows a particular route, like Ulysses, but who is stopped in women instead of in islands”, with the background of a Barcelona so real that there are even characters who prepare Islamist attacks. “It’s not a black novel, but they will say it is,” said the author.