The Historian Condition:Good Part thriller and part philosophical

Part thriller and part philosophical meditation

All of the theory in the book is in Chapter 1

A Man Booker Prize finalist

and by his colleagues and constituents

brutally murdered by a biker gang

The Historian Condition:Good Part thriller and part philosophicalSome stories can be told again in endlessly different ways. Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian combines a search for the historical Dracula with a profound sense that Stoker got some things rightthat the late Mediaeval tyrant kills among us yet, undead and dangerous. From Stoker, she also takes a sense that the supernatural seems more real when embedded in documentary evidence. Three generations search for Dracula's resting place, and their stories are