Descripción o resumen: To you perceptine reader, I begueath my history... Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to ‘;My dear and unfortunate successor’. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father’s past and her mother’s mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. ‘;A spirited update of Bram Stoker’s classic, with a vastly ingenious plot in which Dracula has developed a mysterious penchant for librarians … Kostova is a whiz at storytelling and narrative pace’ OBSERVER ‘;Told with a compelling intensity which will keep the reader hooked until the last Undead tomb door swings shut’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘;Filled with fascinating details of archaic vampire lore, the splendours of the Ottoman Empire and the beauty of the Romanian countryside’ TLS ‘;Obsession, possession, and the struggle against the brevity of life … Kostova captures, beautifully, the turn on a dime from light to dark’ THE TIMES