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.
Late one night, exploring ther 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 hiden in the depths of history.
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Some stories can be told again in endlessly different ways. Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian combines a search for the historical Dracula with a profound sense that Stoker got some things right--that the late Mediaeval tyrant kills among us yet, undead and dangerous. From Stoker, she also takes a sense that the supernatural seems more real when embedded in documentary evidence.
Three generations search for Dracula's resting place, and their stories are nested within each other, so that we know that at least two quests ended badly. Kostova rations her thrills very carefully so that we jump out of our chair at quite slight surprises, especially when we have come to expect buckets of blood and loud bangs. She also has a profound and well-communicated sense of place and period, so that the book is equally at home in 1930s Rumania, Cold War Budapest and 1970s Oxford. Kostova is particularly good on the sights and sounds of remote country places and the taste of real peasant food--this sensuous realism does not always go with her other skill, the creation of imagined documents and folksongs that feel as real and true as what might be actual.
This is a quietly good book rather than a spectacular debut, with some uncomfortable twists in its tail; her heroine-narrators are, and perhaps remain, in the most serious of jeopardies. ---Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
一开始买这本书,还以为自己是购买了一本类似探索杂志或者科学解迷一类的书,是冲着吸血鬼这个有趣的话题去的,不过,事实上,它是一本小说。 如果按我们的历史观来看,也许我会说,这是一个虚构的故事。可是在看完了以后的历史观来看,我又在想,我怎么敢说,这样的故事是虚构...
評分本来以为是达芬奇密码之类的风格。看了以后,玄疑倒是玄疑。但是过于平淡的。话说回来,这可真是“历史学家”的风格。在故纸堆里面寻找历史的蛛丝马迹,完全是一封信借着一封信,整本书用的引号估计创纪录了。对于读者来说可能有点枯燥,当然喜欢考据的一定不会这样想。到了一...
評分本来以为是达芬奇密码之类的风格。看了以后,玄疑倒是玄疑。但是过于平淡的。话说回来,这可真是“历史学家”的风格。在故纸堆里面寻找历史的蛛丝马迹,完全是一封信借着一封信,整本书用的引号估计创纪录了。对于读者来说可能有点枯燥,当然喜欢考据的一定不会这样想。到了一...
評分先看了中文的,没觉得悬疑倒是陶醉在异国风情中。 后来看见了原版的,真是…… 都怪自己想象力太丰富
關於吸血鬼的書,繼Bram Stoker之後又一本完全以Dracula為主題的書,其間穿插瞭3代人的追尋經曆。
评分(英文原版)恐怖的情節,緊湊的敘述,優美的文字,讓人不敢讀卻又不能罷手。。。糅閤瞭幻想與史實,在我看來是絲毫不遜於Dan Brown的佳作
评分喜歡吸血鬼題材的不容錯過
评分也可以改名叫《東歐遊記》。作者真能擱住話,是我早就在一兩章裏就說完瞭。好長,看得好纍,感覺再也不會愛瞭。
评分一本關於Vlad Ţepeş Dracula統治下的Transylvania和Wallachia坊間消息的各種解讀
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