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Sep 28, 2017AliReads rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I was lucky enough to see Elizabeth Kostova when she was in Christchurch promoting this book. Her stories of her own time in Bulgaria were fascinating - In her student days she visited the country while researching Bulgarian folk music - and while she was there, the Berlin Wall came down.  It was a fascinating time in history then - and her book draws on even more Bulgarian history, from the 1940s onwards. It's dark, yes, but important. It's a historical mystery, a thriller, and a beautiful piece of literary fiction all in one