by Elizabeth Kostova · Rizzoli · tapa dura · ISBN 9788817007214
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«Il discepolo» is the historical mystery novel by Elizabeth Kostova, published by Rizzoli in hardcover (668 pages, in Italian).
A young woman finds in her father's library some letters and a book of blank pages with a dragon and the word «Drakulya». The clue leads her to Vlad III the Impaler and the legend of Dracula, through Amsterdam, Istanbul, Sofia and the Pyrenees. Diaries, letters and a family secret tie her to an ancient threat in this historical thriller.
Italian translation by Maria Barbara Piccioli; the original English title is The Historian, debut novel by Elizabeth Kostova published in 2005 and winner of the Book Sense Book of the Year.
For readers of historical fiction, gothic suspense and vampire fiction, with a plot combining documentary research and a journey through Europe.
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.
