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The Shadow Land
by Elizabeth Kostova
Alexandra Boyd is a young American woman traveling to Bulgaria to work. On her first day there she accidentally picks up the bag of a stranger when it gets confused with her luggage. She sets out to return the bag to its owner, a task that becomes urgent when she realizes it contains human remains, the urn labeled only "Stoyan Lazarov."
In order to return this precious package to its rightful owner, she must find out who Stoyan was, with the aid of her serendipitously sympathetic and talented taxi driver, especially as danger looms and the police and government can seemingly not be trusted. She uncovers a rich and terrible history of a man brutalized by his own government under the yoke of communist oppression. This book covers Alexandra's increasingly perilous journey to return the urn to Stoyan's family as well as Stoyan's own tumultuous life. It is beautiful and elegantly paced, a very rich, heartbreaking, at times painfully beautiful and terrible story. Past and present weave the two narratives together on Alexandra's journey. Love, loss, the families we're born to, and the families we make, the weight of history, and the concept of home all play roles is this mesmerizing story.
I received a copy of this book through Goodreads' First Reads program.
In order to return this precious package to its rightful owner, she must find out who Stoyan was, with the aid of her serendipitously sympathetic and talented taxi driver, especially as danger looms and the police and government can seemingly not be trusted. She uncovers a rich and terrible history of a man brutalized by his own government under the yoke of communist oppression. This book covers Alexandra's increasingly perilous journey to return the urn to Stoyan's family as well as Stoyan's own tumultuous life. It is beautiful and elegantly paced, a very rich, heartbreaking, at times painfully beautiful and terrible story. Past and present weave the two narratives together on Alexandra's journey. Love, loss, the families we're born to, and the families we make, the weight of history, and the concept of home all play roles is this mesmerizing story.
I received a copy of this book through Goodreads' First Reads program.