If not one of the best crime novels, this book is definitely one of the most intriguing and special stories you will ever read. If for no other reason, then just because the main character and narrator in the novel is – Francis, the cat.

I thought of those big, scholarly words and phrases like «post-colonialism», «psycho-analitical critique», «feminism critique»; words and phrases I could use to characterize this book, to define it, determine its context, intention, audience, virtues and flaws and everything else that usually goes with the territory, but then I gave up. It would go too far and who knows if I'd be able to get myself out of it.

Recently the world celebrated the sixtieth anniversary since the closing of the most notorious concentration camp, and if there ever was a time to talk about the life and works of Imra Kertesz, then that time is now.

The historian is the first novel by this American writer; it owes its great popularity to its main theme – the unattainable human ideal personified in the Legend of Dracula: immortality.