Elizabeth Kostova's writes her debut novel, The Historian after long research. A young girl discovers a mysterious old book in her father's library, with one printed page of a dragon while the rest of the pages blank. This novel is about her quest to learn the truth about her father's secret past and his search through Cold war-era Eastern Europe for the monster Dracula. It traces Dracula's footsteps from the halls of Oxford to the mountains of Transylvania and finally to a medieval monastery, yielding shocking truth. It takes back centuries ago to the Middle Ages, its history and myth with vivid cast of researchers, students and bureaucrats. The novel makes for a gripping and entertaining gothic thriller with its historical context and use of narrative devices and archival documents.
