About this Item
Little Brown, New York, 2005. First edition. First printing. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page in month of publication, dated July 21, 2005. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. This copy is signed and dated, without any inscription. You cannot find a better copy. Seller Inventory # mmm19
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Historian (Signed First Edition)
Publisher: Little, Brown (New York)
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
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
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