La historiadora

elizabeth kostova

Su nombre despierta terror en el corazón de los hombres. A lo largo de siglos, se le ha considerado un mito. Ahora, alguien se atreve a buscarlo a través de los rincones más oscuros de Europa y Asia y buceando en lo más remotos pasajes de la historia.

Durante años, Paul fue incapaz de contarle a su hija la verdad sobre la obsesión que ha guiado su vida. Ahora, entre sus papeles, ella descubre una historia que comenzó con la extraña desaparición del mentor de Paul, el profesor Rossi. Tras las huellas de su querido maestro, Paul recorrió antiguas bibliotecas de Estambul, monasterios en ruinas en Rumania, remotas aldeas en Bulgaria... Cuanto más se acercaba a Rossi, más se aproximaba también a un misterio que había aterrorizado incluso a los poderosos sultanes otomanos, y que aún hace temblar a los campesinos de Europa del Este. Un misterio que ha dejado un rastro sangriento en manuscritos, viejos libros y canciones susurradas al oído. Para Paul y su hija llegar al final dela búsqueda puede significar un destino mucho peor que la muerte. Porque a cada paso que dan, se convencen más de que él les está esperando. Y en sus corazones, retumba una pregunta angustiosa... ¿Es posible que la tumba de Vlad el Emperador esconda algo más que el cuerpo de un asesino legendario?

Genres fictionhistorical fictionfantasyhorrorvampiresmysteryhistoricalgothicparanormalthriller

699 pages, Paperback

First published June 14,2005

Literary awards

international horror guild award, hopwood award, book sense book of the year award, the quill award, lord ruthven award,

Places

amsterdam, budapest, oxford university oxford england, istanbul, england, netherlands, hungary, turkey,

This edition

Format: 699 pages, Paperback
Published: September 1, 2005 by Umbriel
ISBN: 9788495618870
ASIN: 8495618877
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Characters More characters

Bartholomew Rossi

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Helen Rossi

Birth name Elena. Anthropology student at the University of Budapest, who won a stipendium to study abroad....
Paul Ross

Historian from Boston...
Vlad Iii

An historical figure who lived from 1431-1476 and ruled Wallachia (westernmost province of todays Romania). Called Dracula (“son of Dracul”) because his father Vlad I was the Dracul, the first of the Order of the Dragon, created to oust the infidels (the ...
Hugh James

Professor of Rastern European history at Oxford University, England. Colleague of Rossi, and advisor to Bartleby....
Evá Orbán

Helens Aunt Evá, who with her husband János Orbán, raised Helen in Budapest. Evá was the third child of poor Transylvanian farmers and older sister of Helens mother, the youngest daughter. Fiercely determined and intelligent, she worked her way into a sen...

About the author

elizabeth kostova

Elizabeth Kostova was born Elizabeth Z. Johnson in New London, Connecticut and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee where she graduated from the Webb School of Knoxville. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she won the 2003 Hopwood Award for her Novel-in-Progress. She is married to a Bulgarian scholar and has taken his family name.

Her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005 and it has become a best-seller.

In May 2007, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation was created. The Foundation helps support Bulgarian creative writing, the translation of contemporary Bulgarian literature into English, and friendship between Bulgarian authors and American and British authors.

Kostova released her second novel The Swan Thieves on January 12, 2010. Her third novel, The Shadow Land, was released in 2017.