Diary of a Blood DonorIn this contemporary retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Estonian writer Mati Unt offers a playful yet unsettling mixture of fact and fiction, combining pieces of Estonian political history--in particular the figure of Lydia Koidula (1843-1886), widely regarded as the first Estonian woman to express an Estonian longing for independence--with portraits of life in contemporary Estonia, all set against a backdrop of vampirism and the Gothic novel. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 3 |
Section 3 | 29 |
Section 4 | 31 |
Section 5 | 59 |
Section 6 | 89 |
Section 7 | 103 |
Section 8 | 121 |
Section 9 | 143 |
Section 10 | 181 |
Section 11 | 199 |
Common terms and phrases
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