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by Milos Urban · Ediciones El Andén · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492475001
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En el siglo XIX, un extraño personaje, el barón de Caus, llega al pueblecito checo de Stará Ves. Distinguido, culto y seductor, es la perfecta encarnación del dandi. Pero bajo su elegante apariencia se oculta un ser atávico y semihumano: Hastrman, el espíritu de las aguas. Obsesionado por la sublime Katerina será capaz de llegar a la más extrema crueldad, en un relato en el que la sensualidad y la tiranía nos conducen por el mundo de los mitos y el floclore. Doscientos años después, Hastrman regresará de nuevo a Stará Ves, solo para encontrar un área devastada. Con el apoyo de un grupo de ecoterroristas, hará lo que sea necesario para devolver a la Naturaleza lo que le ha sido arrebatado.
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.
