Edge Of Eternity Book Three Of The Century Trilogy, De Follett, Ken. Editorial Viking, Tapa Dura En Inglés, 2014

Descripción

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion in "Edge of Eternity". In "Fall of Giants" and "Winter of the World", Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now, they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll.

East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an 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, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.

Those eagerly awaiting volume three of Follett’s ambitious Century Trilogy will not be disappointed. This saga continues to follow the lives and loves of the members of five global families, as they struggle against a backdrop of tumultuous international events. As the years roll by, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, the assassination of JFK, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the crumbling of communism are intimately viewed through the eyes and emotions of a representative array of witnesses to history. Follett does an outstanding job of interweaving and personalizing complicated narratives set on a multicultural stage.

Praise for "Edge of Eternity":
[Follett] is a commanding storyteller who has taken on an impossibly large task and accomplished it with passion, intelligence, and skill. It's an honest entertainment that brings back vivid, sometimes painful, memories of the not-too-distant past. -The Washington Post

"Edge of Eternity" is as compulsively readable a mighty page-turner as its two predecessors. -The Seattle Times

Hugely ambitious, the trilogy serves as a massive history lesson as well as an example of storytelling. -The New York Daily News

Follett never forgets he is telling a story. The historical events are the backdrop but the characters are the focal point. -The Huffington Post

Mesmerizing... flowing with spicy, expertly paced melodrama, character-rich exploits, familial histrionics, and international intrigue. -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Worth the wait... Once again, Follett has written pitch-perfect popular fiction that readers will find spellbinding.