by Milos Urban · RUSTICA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466642293
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«La sombra de la catedral» is the crime novel by Milos Urban, published by Ediciones B in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
In contemporary Prague, a murder in St. Vitus Cathedral shakes the city. Roman Rops, a specialist in art and literature, goes from suspect to collaborator in the police investigation, and his erudition becomes the key to unraveling a mystery full of cultural and historical references.
Translated by Kepa Luis Huarte Mendicoa, this edition was published on July 8, 2009 in the Rústica Ficción collection.
For readers of crime and horror fiction who want to approach contemporary Czech literature.
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.
