The Historian

By Elizabeth Kostova
(Back Bay Books, Paperback, 9780316070638, 720pp.)

Publication Date: September 2009

Categories: Historical - General, Fantasy - Dark/Horror

Description

When a teenage girl discovers a medieval book in her diplomat father's library, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, 20 years earlier, in a search for his mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding his certainty that Dracula--Vlad the Impaler--was still alive.

About the Author

Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress. Her second novel, The Swan Thieves, will be published in October 2009.

Praise For The Historian…

"Quite extraordinary....Kostova is a natural storyteller....She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner."�
-San Francisco Chronicle

"Part thriller, part history, part romance....Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell."
-Baltimore Sun

"Hypnotic....A thrill ride through history."�
-Denver Post

"Impossible to resist."�
-Miami Herald

"Kostova's vampire is no campy Lugosi knockoff....Blending history and myth, Kostova has fashioned a version so fresh that when a stake is finally driven through a heart, it inspires the tragic shock of something happening for the very first time."�
-Newsweek

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