Diary of a Blood Donor by Mati Unt Paperback Book 9781564784964

In this contemporary retelling of Bram Stokers Dracula Estonian writer Mati Unt offers a playful yet unsettling mixture of fact and fiction combining pieces of Estonian political historyin particular the figure of Lydia Koidula 18431886 widely regarded as the first Estonian woman to express an Estonian longing for independencewith portraits of life in contemporary Estonia all set against a backdrop of vampirism and the Gothic novel