Fall of Giants is a magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in the Century trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families – American, German, Russian, English and Welsh – as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man’s world in the Welsh mining pits…Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House…two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription and revolution…Billy’s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London….
These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.
As always with Ken, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.
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3 comments:
I got hooked on Ken Follett back when EYE OF THE NEEDLE was a bestseller. Recently I read one of his earlier (less successful) novels, PAPER MONEY, and thought it was exquisitely written.
If you mail a book to Follett he'll autograph it and mail it back. (That would make a nice giveaway, come to think of it.) He just autographed WORLD WITHOUT END for me.
I remember Eye of the Needle... :)
I didn't know he'd do that. I'll have to think of something. That would make a cool Christmas giveaway, wouldn't it? :) Hope you're doing well!
Hey Drey,
I was able to catch a little bit of Pillars of the Earth. It shows promise. I need to watch it straight through but I like it.
Spartacus is another Starz show that has promise but came up short in my opinion. I don't know if they will continue that show because the main actor has fallen ill.
Take care my friend.
Steve
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