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The Historian - Softcover

Kostova, Elizabeth

 
9780751537291: The Historian
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0751537292 ISBN 13: 9780751537291
Verlag: Sphere, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the Dracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, and evading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions - a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful - and utterly unforgettable.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 for The Historian.

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Verlag
Sphere
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0751537292
ISBN 13 
9780751537291
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
720
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