The Family of the Vourdalak - A New Translation

Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Amazon Servicos de Varejo do Brasil Ltda

2018

35 páginas

1h 10m

ISBN-10: B07DN1684W

Marquis d'Urfé, a young French diplomat, finds himself in a small Serbian village, in the house of an old peasant named Gorch. The host is absent: he left the house ten days ago along with some other men to hunt for a Turk outlaw Alibek. Upon leaving Gorch told his sons, George and Peter, that they should wait for him for ten days sharp and, should he come a minute later, kill him by driving a stake through his heart for then he’d be not a man but a vampiric vourdalak. The family awaits the deadline with growing anxiety and there Gorch is, appearing on the road at 8 o'clock in the evening, exactly on the time he left ten days ago. His sons are uncertain as to how this strange precision should be interpreted...