In post-Communist Romania, on the border with Transylvania, the sleepy little town of B. is losing its young people to the West.
A young painter returned from Paris and her eccentric great-aunt seem unconcerned with the decline of the town, until a mutilated corpse is found in the family crypt of Prince Vlad the Impaler, better known as Dracula.
As the world’s attention turns to B., the mayor and his son take advantage and turn the town into a vampire-inspired theme park. Tourists flock, but beneath the surface ancient horrors live on.
This is a breathtaking, atmospheric tale of revenge, extremism and the longing for a strong leader, for a strict, cruel judge - like Dracula.
‘An incredible writer.’ --Milo Rau, Swiss TV Literature Club
“Her writing is like painting with a thick brush – daring, gleeful, lavish and humorous.” --Anne-Catherine Simon, Die Presse
"A vibrant and poetic tale of vampirical transformation, and what happens to a society that would rather awaken the evil spirits of the past than confront the present. A topical and thrilling novel that reaches far beyond the borders of Romania." --SRF2 Kultur Kompakt
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