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The Historian
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Elizabeth Kostova
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2005
People/Characters
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad Tepes (Dracula)
Professor Bartholomew Rossi
Helen Rossi
Paul
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Narrator - Pauls daughter
Mrs. Clay
Massimo
Guilia
Johan Binnerts
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Istanbul, Turkey
Bulgaria
Romania
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Budapest, Hungary
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Oxford University, Oxford England
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Quill Award (Debut Author of the Year, 2005)
Book Sense Book of the Year (Adult Fiction winner, 2006)
International Horror Guild Nominee (Novel, 2005)
New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 2005)
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For my father,
who first told me
some of these stories
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The story that follows is one I never intended to commit to paper. (A Note To The Reader)
In 1972 I was sixteen - young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions.
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He looks instead, the abbot thinks, as if all the world is before him.
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David Liss
George Saunders
Katherine Neville
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