Was Dracula (aka Vlad the Impaler) truly a vampire? Did he die back in the 1300's or does he still walk the earth? Did he possess nobility or was he a monster? These are some of the questions confronted in The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I'll let our narator introduce you to the book:
This is the story of how as a girl of sixteen I went in search of my father and his past, and of how he went in search of his beloved mentor and his mentor's own history, and of how we all found ourselves on one of the darkest pathways into history. It is the story of who survived that search and who did not, and why.
This long and complicated story moves between the medieval Ottoman Empire, pre-World War II Europe, and the Cold War as three generations of historians use their gifts to seek the truth about Dracula. Along the way, they encounter homicidal librarians (hmm), the undead, professors, gypsies, monks, and other keepers of the secrets.
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