{"product_id":"the-historian-paperback","title":"The Historian - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA girl finds an old book and a packet of letters in her father's library, all addressed to \"My dear and unfortunate successor.\" Then her father starts telling her why he stopped reading them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf note: Our favorite long book for autumn. Save it for evenings with a lamp and a pot of tea.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is blank except for a woodcut of a dragon at its center. The letters describe a search that has consumed three generations of scholars: a search for a grave that may not be empty, for a man who died in 1476 and may not have stayed dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKostova's debut moves between Cold War Eastern Europe, the monasteries of Bulgaria and Turkey, and the archives of Oxford and Istanbul, following a trail of documents that each researcher pays dearly for finding. It's a vampire novel that takes the historical record seriously, with the real Vlad Ţepeş, the actual monastic sources, and the genuine difficulty of tracing a fifteenth-century body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pleasure here is procedural. These are people who hunt Dracula through footnotes and manuscript catalogs, and the dread accumulates in the reading rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Elizabeth Kostova\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780316070638\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Historical fiction, gothic, literary thriller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67967161925831,"sku":"9780316070638","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/0741\/9335\/files\/9780316070638.jpg?v=1792520339","url":"https:\/\/spineboundbooks.com\/products\/the-historian-paperback","provider":"Spinebound Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}