Elizabeth Kostova Ordre des livres

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria, a beautiful and haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes. As Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return this precious item, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by oppression and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger. Kostova's new novel is a tale of immense scope that delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of this mysterious country. Suspenseful and beautifully written, it explores the power of stories, the pull of the past, and the hope and meaning that can sometimes be found in the aftermath of loss.

Psychiater Andrew Marlow heeft twee passies: zijn werk en schilderen. Wanneer hij de beroemde kunstschilder Robert Oliver in behandeling neemt nadat deze heeft geprobeerd een doek in de National Gallery met een mes te bewerken, wordt Marlows geregelde leventje verstoord. Zijn drang te achterhalen met welk geheim de zwijgzame schilder worstelt, leidt hem naar de twee vrouwen die Oliver het beste gekend hebben - en naar een stapel oude brieven die een drama openbaren dat zich in de bloeiperiode van het Franse impressionisme heeft afgespeeld.

Andrew Marlow, a dedicated psychiatrist, has his orderly life disrupted when he becomes the therapist for the troubled painter Robert Oliver, who refuses to communicate. Marlow's quest to uncover Oliver's secret leads him through the lives of women connected to Oliver and into the depths of French Impressionism, exploring themes of obsession and the enduring power of art.

* The highly anticipated new novel by the author of the international bestseller THE HISTORIAN.

Notte. Brividi. Una ragazzina scopre nella biblioteca paterna un fascio di lettere misteriose e un libro in cui domina una raffigurazione di un drago, sopra la misteriosa scritta "Drakulya". È l'atto di inizio di una ricerca che si era già svolta in passato e torna a risvegliare uno spettro che da sempre si aggira per l'Europa e che si nasconde dietro la storia che tutti noi conosciamo. Una caccia spietata alla ricerca di un ente soprannaturale che da secoli ossessiona gli uomini, la leggenda di Dracula, il re dei vampiri. Piani temporali e storici si intrecciano, mentre padre e figlia, i protagonisti di questa affannosa ricerca di un Graal in forma umana (sovrumana, anzi...), percorrono i pertugi di una vicenda nascosta agli occhi dei profani, in cui si addensano ombre e demoni, vicende familiari e inattese svolte, fino a una serie di rivelazioni che sconvolgono la percezione della realtà.

An "innovative" (The New Yorker) retelling of the story of Dracula. Told with the flourish and poise of a talented storyteller, Kostova turns the age-old tale into a compelling "late night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle) When a young woman discovers a cache of ancient letters, she is thrown into the turbulent history of her parents' dark pasts. Uncovering a labyrinthine trail of clues, she begins to reconstruct a staggering history of deceit and violence. Debut novelist Elizabeth Kostova creates 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.