by Milos Urban · Rowohlt Tb. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499233425
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«Die Rache der Baumeister» is the crime novel by Miloš Urban, published by Rowohlt Tb. in paperback (384 pages, in German).
A series of attacks shakes Prague, always near Gothic buildings. The suspended policeman and medievalist Kvetoslav Svach becomes obsessed with the investigation, where an enigmatic patron from Lübeck and a secret brotherhood living by 14th-century laws appear.
Original Czech novel published in 1999 under the title «Sedmikostelí»; the 2003 German edition came out under the roroho imprint.
For readers of crime fiction and Gothic mystery set in Prague.
Miloš Urban is a Czech novelist and horror writer, known as the "dark knight of Czech literature". He is best known for his 1999 novel Sedmikostelí, a Gothic crime horror set in Prague, which was translated into 11 languages. He is also a translator, and has translated works by authors including Isaac Bashevis Singer and Julian Barnes into Czech. He was the winner of the 2002 Magnesia Litera prize for prose writing for his 2001 novel Hastrman, as well as the 1996 Mladá fronta prize for his translation of Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot. As well as the Czech Republic, Urban's books have found considerable commercial success in Spanish-speaking countries.
