01334cam a22002174a 4500003000900000003000400009005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040003200104100002400136245002000160264003900180300002400219520077700243650002301020655002501043655002701068655002101095PH-MaWHOost20241108112742.0040927s2005    nyub          000 1 eng    a9780316057882  a0316057886  aDLCbengcWPRO LibrarydDLC1 aKostova, Elizabeth.14aThe historian /  aNew York :bBack Bay Books,c2006.  a816 pages ;c25 cm.  aThree 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. 0aVampiresvFiction. 7aThrillers (Fiction). 7aOccult fiction.2gsafd 0aVampire fiction.