Author: elizabethkostova

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Historian: When Alexandra happens upon an ornate urn, her efforts to find the rightful owner reveal a harrowing slice of Bulgarian history. “You won’t want to put down this remarkable book” (Claire Messud).

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history….Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor,” and they plunge 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 … inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known-and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and…