Miloš Urban
Miloš Urban is a Czech writer, translator, and publishing editor. He debuted in 1998 with The Final Mark on the Manuscripts, followed by The Seven Churches in 1999 and Hastrman in 2001, which won the Magnesia Litera Award for prose and was successfully adapted into a film by Ondřej Havelka in 2018. Among his other novels, including horror works like Santini’s Language, KAR, and Boletus Arcanus, he also published the original architectural sci-fi Urbo Kune. In 2012, he released Praga Piccola, a First Republic novel set in the Praga car factory in Libeň. Ten years later, he revisited the First Republic era with a different theme in his novel set in Prague’s slaughterhouses, Meat Factory.
Dr. Alz
October 2024, 256 pages
Available material: English sample, German sample
Extraordinary notes from an old man who may or may not have Alzheimer’s disease
Gustav Molitor, a former publishing editor, is informed by his doctor that he is beginning to suffer from progressive dementia. Alzheimer’s is a possibility, but despite knowing he’s “starting to lose it,” Gustav begins keeping notes about his symptoms, convinced that his diagnosis may turn out differently. In an effort to exercise his mind and delay the inevitable, he decides to write down everything he can still remember. To his surprise, he discovers just how much humor is hidden in the awkward and sorrowful memories of his life.
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