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Book cover of The Historian

Arthur Shattuck Oā€™Keefe Author Of The Spirit Phone

From Arthur's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Arthur Shattuck Oā€™Keefe Why did Arthur love this book?

The Historianā€™s premiseā€”an interesting twist on the Dracula legendā€”hooked me, and then the story hooked me and wouldnā€™t let go. (By pure coincidence, I read it right after having re-read Stokerā€™s Dracula.) Kostova manages a complex plot, various characters, and several time periods in the 20th century while not getting bogged down in minutiae. Her scene descriptions, particularly of Budapest and Istanbul, I found amazing. As the perspectives of different characters in different decades are depicted, it feels somewhat like frame stories within frame stories, and is all the more compelling for that. There were lots of ā€œWowā€ moments. This is one of those books I wish Iā€™d written, but Iā€™m happy Elizabeth Kostova wrote it.

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5 authors picked The Historian as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Late one night, exploring her 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 hidden in the depths of history.
In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis ofā€¦


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