by Milos Urban · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466619639
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«Las siete iglesias» is the gothic mystery novel by Milos Urban, published by Ediciones B in hardcover (400 pages, in Spanish).
In gothic Prague, a series of macabre murders in ancient churches forces the police to seek help from Kvetoslav Svach, a detective expelled from the force with a deep knowledge of medieval history and art. As he investigates, K discovers that the crimes are linked by a secret hidden for centuries.
Original title: Sedmikostelí. Translation by Kepa Uharte. Published in the La Trama collection.
For readers of crime fiction and gothic mystery interested in medieval Prague and Central European 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.
