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Title: The Historian 
Author:  Elizabeth Kostova


Amazon rating is 4.0/5.0 stars
based on 2,019 customer reviews!


Amazon.com Review:

If your pulse flutters at the thought of
castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of Elizabeth Kostova's long but
beautifully structured thriller The Historian. The story opens in Amsterdam in 1972, when a teenage girl discovers a
medieval book and a cache of yellowed letters in her diplomat father's library. The pages of the book are empty except
for a woodcut of a dragon. The letters are addressed to: "My dear and unfortunate successor." When the girl
confronts her father, he reluctantly confesses an unsettling story: his involvement, twenty years earlier, in a search
for his graduate school mentor, who disappeared from his office only moments after confiding to Paul his certainty that
Dracula--Vlad the Impaler, an inventively cruel ruler of Wallachia in the mid-15th century--was still alive. The story
turns out to concern our narrator directly because Paul's collaborator in the search was a fellow student named Helen
Rossi (the unacknowledged daughter of his mentor) and our narrator's long-dead mother, about whom she knows almost
nothing. And then her father, leaving just a note, disappears also.
As well as numerous settings, both in and out
of the East Bloc, Kostova has three basic story lines to keep straight--one from 1930, when Professor Bartolomew Rossi
begins his dangerous research into Dracula, one from 1950, when Professor Rossi's student Paul takes up the scent, and
the main narrative from 1972. The crisscrossing story lines mirror the political advances, retreats, triumphs, and
losses that shaped Dracula's beleaguered homeland--sometimes with the Byzantines on top, sometimes the Ottomans,
sometimes the rag-tag local tribes, or the Orthodox Church, and sometimes a fresh conqueror like the Soviet Union.

Although the book is appropriately suspenseful and a delight to read--even the minor characters are distinctive
and vividly seen--its most powerful moments are those that describe real horrors. Our narrator recalls that after
reading descriptions of Vlad burning young boys or impaling "a large family," she
tried to forget the words: "For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me
this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only
history itself can convince you of such a truth." The reader, although given a satisfying ending, gets a strong
enough dose of European history to temper the usual comforts of the closing words. 

Publishers Weekly:

Starred Review. It's been four years since Kostova's door-stopping vampire novel first shot up the bestseller
lists, but this marvelous audio adaptation is worth the wait. Narrated by an ensemble of talented actors, this audio
book is enhanced by impressive musical scoring during key transitions (from past to present, or between narrators) and
at pivotal junctures in the story. The music adds to the eeriness of the novel's progression, while the brisk
abridgement keeps the pace moving much more compellingly than the print version: where the novel reproduced a 15 page
academic journal article, this adaptation trims it to its bones by allowing primary sources to speak directly across
centuries of history. Rich with evocative settings and a sparkling cast, this adaptation may be an improvement upon the
original. 

                                                             

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