The Navona publishing house publishes for the first time a work that Carvalho's father wrote in the early sixties and that remained hidden in his archives for decades.

They found an unpublished novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán that will be published in the fall.

"Everything starts here," says José Colmeiro at the doors, or almost, of the Modelo prison in Barcelona. Hallways and yards. Bars everywhere. It is no longer a prison, but a cultural center, but the units and iron bars are still there. The cells are still there too, including the one occupied by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán for six months in 1962. His crime? Participate in student protests and fuel dissidence. Soon he would be transferred to the Provincial Prison of Lérida, but it was in the Modelo, as Colmeiro says, where he started it all.

Because it was there, at least thematically, where 'Los papeles de Admunsen,' the first novel by the prolific father of detective Pepe Carvalho, began to take shape. A hitherto unpublished work lost in the archives that Vázquez Montalbán wrote before he turned 26 and that the Navona publishing house has put into circulation coinciding with the 20th anniversary of his death, October 18, 2003, of the Barcelona author. "Prison is a very important element in this book, with very specific descriptions of prison and its underground world," commented editor Ernest Folch.

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