The Historian

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

Publication Date: September 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc - Abridged (September 2009), Mass Market Paperback (June 2008), Compact Disc - Abridged (June 2008), Paperback (October 2006), Audio Cassette (December 2005), Hardcover (June 2005), Audio Cassette - Abridged (June 2005), Compact Disc - Abridged (June 2005), Compact Disc (January 0001)

Categories: Historical - General, Fantasy - Dark/Horror

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.

"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