Well remembered for her bestselling novels The Swan Thieves and The Historian this suspenseful novel will simply add to her luster. Listening to the story as read by four such talented narrators is very much like going to the theater and hearing it read by gifted performers, especially Barrie Kreinik. She is not only an actor, singer and award winning audio book narrator but also an acting teacher and dialect coach. Each of her fellow narrators is equally well qualified.
Author Kostova bgan traveling to Bulgaria to do research just after
college - she arrived the week the Berlin Wall fell. It was there that
she met the man she would marry. Actually, she fell in love twice -
with her future husband and with a country she considered battered but
beautiful. Her passion for Bulgaria is evident in her work.
With The Shadow Land the
year is 2008 and 26-year-old Alexandra Boyd has left her home in the
Blue Ridge Mountains to teach English in Bulgaria. For her this is a
coveted opportunity. Unfortunately her cabdriver has mistakenly
delivered her to a pricey hotel rather than the hostel where she is
booked. As she is in the process of locating another cab she helps an
older couple and the attractive man with them into their cab. In the
confusion of cabs she finds that she has one of their satchels. Inside
to her surprise she finds an urn containing the ashes of a man called
Stoyan Lazarov.
Bobby, her English speaking cab driver, reluctantly agrees to take her
to the police station where the officer on duty locates an address where
they might find the dead man's family. So, the two set off to find
Lazarov's relatives. As they follow first one lead and then another
they learn of the dead man's life - during World War II, the Cold War
Era and how his career as a violinist was destroyed when he spent time
in a debilitating prison camp.
Danger threatens when they realize they are being followed by someone who plainly doesn't want some information revealed. What could it possibly be?
Enjoy.
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