![]() ![]() The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe-in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. structure and style, but I fear thats about all I can say, which. ![]() '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 Chronicleīreathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The book was well-written for what it was, just in terms of sentence/paragraph-level prose vs. Hachette Audio, 19.98 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-60024-861-0 It's been four years since Kostova's door-stopping vampire novel first shot up the bestseller lists, but. 'A smart retelling of the Dracula story' New Yorker ![]()
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