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Lest we dismiss this story as, to borrow a line from one of its characters, “only literature,” our historian reminds us that it is a history; Kostova not-so-subtly tries to inject an aura of verisimilitude into the novel...
...Kostova successfully fills out these pages through a multi-layered framing device: as Paul and his daughter flit about Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc—brokering peace agreements and possibly being stalked by an undead librarian—our intrepid historian interweaves correspondence and flashbacks to fill us in on Paul and Rossi’s back stories...
Rossi had received a dragon book identical to one our historian later finds in Paul’s library. When a colleague and close friend dies from a suspicious neck wound, Rossi defects for Cambridge, Mass. Kostova, a Yale graduate, has her characters using all sorts of amusing circumlocutions—the “excellent university,” the university of the “distinguished American scholar”—to describe our fine institution, Rossi’s chosen haven...
...Historian By Elizabeth Kostova Back Bay Books...
...HISTORIAN -- ELIZABETH KOSTOVA...
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