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Diary of a Blood Donor

by Mati Unt · 1990

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In 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."

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 212 pages

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