Pandora (Nuevas Historias de Vampiros 1)
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Publisher Description
Anne Rice iniciaba con Pandora la serie «Nuevas Historias de Vampiros», integrada por la presente novela y por Vittorio el vampiro, recuperando así el universo y algunos de los personajes de sus míticas «Crónicas Vampíricas».
En este primer volumen de las «Nuevas Historias de Vampiros», el vampiro novel David Talbot invita a Pandora, su igual, a rememorara sus casi dos mil años de existencia.
«No han pasado veinte minutos desde que me dejaste aquí, en el café, desde que respondí "no" a tu petición; jamás escribiría para ti la historia de mi vida mortal, jamás te contaría cómo me había convertido en un vampiro, cómo había conocido a Marius pocos años después de que él hubiera perdido su vida mortal. Ahora estoy aquí con tu libreta ante mí, utilizando una de las plumas afiladas y eternamente cargadas de tinta que me dejaste, deleitándome con la sensual sensación que me produce contemplar cómo la tinta negra se fija sobre el costoso papel inmaculadamente blanco.»
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Although Rice bid goodbye to the vampire Lestat in Memnoch the Devil, her fifth novel in The Vampire Chronicles, she has not abandoned vampires altogether. Two installments are planned this year in her New Tales of the Vampires series, and in the first of these, the ancient vampire Pandora tells her story. Urged on by David Talbot--fledgling vampire, self-appointed chronicler and former psychic detective--Pandora documents in sophisticated detail her pre-vampire existence as the privileged daughter of a Roman senator. She's a curious character, first introduced in The Queen of the Damned, in which Marius described her as the Greek courtesan who seduced him into making her a vampire and helped him care for the vampire progenitors until strife forced them apart. Here, Pandora herself sets the record straight. Born early in Augustus's reign, the educated, spirited Pandora was no courtesan--though we do see her challenge the sexual mores of her moment. When Tiberius brings chaos to Rome, and dishonor and death to Pandora's family, she goes to Antioch and tries to solve the mystery of her compelling blood dreams about Egypt. There, she reunites with her childhood crush, Marius, and learns from him what it means to be a vampire. Along the way, we find little of Rice's trademark eroticism, but Pandora has long been one of her more elusive characters, so fans will relish this vivid rendering of her life and times. Random House audio.
