![]() ![]() ![]() Then Rossi disappears, people start to die in strange circumstances and Paul decides to go in search of him. ![]() He asked his professor, Bartholomew Rossi, about it and Rossi explained that he, too, once received such a book. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova A Quick Summary Literary Lane 1 subscriber Subscribe 0 Share No views 1 minute ago Welcome to LITERARY LANE, the ultimate destination for book lovers. Its another historical thriller (of sorts) which swaps the eastern Europe of. Her father, Paul, tells her that one evening, just after the war while he was still a graduate student, he was left a faded leather book with a picture of a dragon inside carrying the word "Drakulya". Kostovas new novel, The Swan Thieves, keeps the gothic motif going with its themes of art, madness and obsession. The daughter of an American historian living in Amsterdam in 1972 discovers a cache of strange letters in her father's library and implores him to tell her what they mean on their first trip away together. Her starting point is a late 19th-century text that just loves to flirt with diaries and letters - Bram Stoker's Dracula. Elizabeth Kostova follows the doorstopper route with this 642-page debut, but no one would dare accuse her of flirting with anything, not when her writing style takes itself so very, very seriously. ![]()
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