Author: Elizabeth Kostova
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 642
Genre: Historical Fiction
The setting is Cold War Europe and the book spans two generations of historians who find that their research of the past has followed them into the present. The topic of their research is the legend of Vlad Dracula the Impaler
. As the characters meander their way through England, France, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey the plot slowly unravels and leads to something dark and mysterious.The two generations of historians have separate stories playing off of each other, but unraveling at the same time. The characters travel through a broad range of different lands and meet many peculiar memorable people from distinctive cultures.
It is an exciting, but very anticipatory read. A book on Dracula is difficult to take serious, but it was worth reading about the vast and non-exhausted travels through the forgotten regions of eastern Europe.
A book on Dracula is most difficult to take serious...wait...what if he really exists???
ReplyDeleteI liked this book, but I think I would have liked it more if it weren't for enormous length.
Another thing I recall being rather not appealing was the many outstanding coincidences..."I just arrived to Istanbul, full of millions of people, and YOUR hunting Dracula too...weird".