The Historian (豆瓣)

作者: Kostova, Elizabeth
出版社: Little Brown & Co
出版年: 2005-6
页数: 656
定价: CDN$ 34.95
装帧: HRD
ISBN: 9780316011778

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　　To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate co... (展开全部) 　　To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge 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 inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself-to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed-and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign-and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages.Parsing obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions-and evading the unknown adversaries who will go to any lengths to conceal and protect Vlad's ancient powers-one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful-and utterly unforgettable.　　

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　　伊丽莎白·科斯托娃（Elizabeth Kostova)，相继毕业于美国耶鲁大学和密歇根大学，获密歇根大学艺术硕士。《历史学家》是伊丽莎白·科斯托娃历时十年精心创作的处女作小说，作者在密歇根大学创作斯间即获得霍普沃德小说创作奖（Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress )，也因为此书，获得二00五年度美国“羽毛笔”图书奖（Quill Book Awards)最佳新人奖。

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于是 2006-06-25

在那本诡谲的古书上，龙，扑面而来。这本书如命运的诏书，无来由地落在命定的主人手中…… 去寻觅——这事情总是文学中最惊心动魄最挑逗神经最欲盖弥彰的...... (查看原文)

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當時買這本《歷史學家/The Historian》是在誠品，張定綺翻譯的中文版和Elizabeth Kostova的英文版並列。我先翻了英文版，看不到一個chapter,覺得大概不...... (查看原文)

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