The Historian
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26 February 2007
I finished reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova today. It's a tale of historical research and vampire hunting. Although it's more about suspense than horror. Librarians and archivists don't fare very well in this book. Their research is a little too dangerous for Dracula.
The story itself spans three generations, but the main characters are a pair of grad students searching Europe and the Near East for a missing professor and gradually discovering the real danger he is in. In this respect, it reminded me of Gospel by Wilton Barnhardt—scholarly adventures around the world, but with the urgency of life and death. (Loved Gospel, hated the ending, by the way.)
Someone asked me the other day if the book was a series of letters and I said, "no." How funny, I love the epistolary novel, but I didn't even recognize it as such. Possibly because the longest sections, although technically written from father to daughter, struck me as first person narration and not letters.
Kostova captures the excitement of handling original manuscripts and rare books even as the characters' historical discoveries lead them further into harm's way. Excellent book! Well-researched and written.
I finished reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova today. It's a tale of historical research and vampire hunting. Although it's more about suspense than horror. Librarians and archivists don't fare very well in this book. Their research is a little too dangerous for Dracula.
The story itself spans three generations, but the main characters are a pair of grad students searching Europe and the Near East for a missing professor and gradually discovering the real danger he is in. In this respect, it reminded me of Gospel by Wilton Barnhardt—scholarly adventures around the world, but with the urgency of life and death. (Loved Gospel, hated the ending, by the way.)
Someone asked me the other day if the book was a series of letters and I said, "no." How funny, I love the epistolary novel, but I didn't even recognize it as such. Possibly because the longest sections, although technically written from father to daughter, struck me as first person narration and not letters.
Kostova captures the excitement of handling original manuscripts and rare books even as the characters' historical discoveries lead them further into harm's way. Excellent book! Well-researched and written.
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