Ken Follett's Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called "potent, engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) and "truly epic" (Huffington Post). USA Today said "you ac
Edge Of Eternity
โ Scribed by Ken Follett
- Book ID
- 101084844
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 635 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0451474015
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โฆ Synopsis
Edge of eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follettโs extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy. Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families โ American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh โ as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1990s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution โ and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers sheโs been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives.โฆGeorge Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedyโs Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own.โฆCameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than heโd imagined.โฆDimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw โ and into history. As always with Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, he brings us into a world we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.
โฆ Subjects
World politics -- 1945- -- Fiction
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