by Milos Urban · Ediciones El Andén · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496929197
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«La lengua de Santini» is the gothic novel by Milos Urban, published in 2007 by Ediciones El Andén in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
The publicist Martin must find a universal phrase to sell anything. His assignment leads him to the churches of Jan Blazej Santini in Bohemia, full of symbolism, and to the exhumation of Saint John of Nepomuk. A notebook written in blood, a key, and several deaths surround the investigation of a universal language.
«La lengua de Santini» closes the trilogy begun with «Las siete iglesias» and «La sombra de la catedral». Translation by Kepa Luis Uharte Mendicoa.
For readers of gothic fiction and historical mystery with architectural settings in Bohemia.
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.
