The Historian
The legend of Dracula is one of the world´s most enduring, spanning over 500 years since the death of the fearsome Romanian prince who inspired it, Vlad the Impaler. Thus it seems only fitting that any literary endeavor attempting to take on a historical and mythical figure of this magnitude should require time, patience and fortitude. Fortunately, debut novelist Elizabeth Kostova didn´t shy away from the challenge, investing 10 long years of writing and research into what has become one of the most anticipated novels of the year, The Historian . Kostova´s keen interest in the subject stems from a childhood of being entertained by her father´s stories of Bram Stoker´s Dracula . From these early fictional seeds, her fertile imagination took flight, eventually percolating into an epic and unforgettable story of such breathtaking scope that it seems to belie classification as a debut novel. Arcing back and forth between the 1970s and the 1950s, The Historian follows a motherless young girl´s quest to learn the truth about her father´s secret past and his search through Cold War-era Eastern Europe for the murderous fiend that has cost him so much-Dracula....
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