by Milos Urban · Ediciones El Andén · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496929562
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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).
A gothic novel of mystery and suspense set in a dark and immersive atmosphere. The story combines a tense mood with the genre's characteristic elements and sustains the mystery until the denouement.
Translation by Kepa Uharte of the original Santiniho jazyk. Third installment of the trilogy begun with Las siete iglesias and La sombra de la catedral.
For readers of gothic novels and mystery, and for those who have already read Las siete iglesias and La sombra de la catedral.
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.
