now reading...Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Holy crap am you excited....I am FINALLY reading THE book which you have been waiting for allllll year! My super-duper uber-fabulous husband surprised me with it yesterday as well as you should have seen me jumping up as well as down as well as squealing like a small kid!
I am a HUGE fan of Ken Follett's The Pillars of a Earth as well as World Without End so you know you just had to read his newest historical fiction novel, which is a first book in The Century Trilogy as well as titled Fall of Giants. The hardcover is genuine trainer with smooth, silky pages as well as you can't wait for to dive in.
Will you be reading?
SYNOPSIS: Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, dear by millions of readers as well as acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows a fates of five related families-American, German, Russian, English, as well as Welsh-as they move through a world-shaking dramas of a First World War, a Russian Revolution, as well as a onslaught for women's suffrage.
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's universe in a Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student deserted in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori as well as Lev Peshkov, enter upon on radically different paths half a universe apart when their devise to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, as well as revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for a elegant Fitzherberts, takes a fatal step above her station, whilst Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses low in to banned territory when she falls in adore with Walter von Ulrich, a view at a German embassy in London...
These characters as well as many others fi! nd thei r lives inextricably caught as, in a tale of maturation drama as well as appealing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from a mud as well as risk of a spark cave to a festive chandeliers of a palace, from a corridors of energy to a bedrooms of a mighty. As always with Ken Follett, a historical background is brilliantly researched as well as rendered, a movement fast-moving, a characters abounding in shade as well as emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.
In destiny volumes of The Century Trilogy, successive generations of a same family groups will travel through a good events of a rest of a twentieth century, becoming different themselves-and a century itself. With passion as well as a palm of a master, Follett brings us in to a universe you thought you knew, but now will never seem a same again.
I am a HUGE fan of Ken Follett's The Pillars of a Earth as well as World Without End so you know you just had to read his newest historical fiction novel, which is a first book in The Century Trilogy as well as titled Fall of Giants. The hardcover is genuine trainer with smooth, silky pages as well as you can't wait for to dive in.
Will you be reading?
SYNOPSIS: Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, dear by millions of readers as well as acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows a fates of five related families-American, German, Russian, English, as well as Welsh-as they move through a world-shaking dramas of a First World War, a Russian Revolution, as well as a onslaught for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's universe in a Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student deserted in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori as well as Lev Peshkov, enter upon on radically different paths half a universe apart when their devise to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, as well as revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for a elegant Fitzherberts, takes a fatal step above her station, whilst Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses low in to banned territory when she falls in adore with Walter von Ulrich, a view at a German embassy in London...
These characters as well as many others fi! nd thei r lives inextricably caught as, in a tale of maturation drama as well as appealing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from a mud as well as risk of a spark cave to a festive chandeliers of a palace, from a corridors of energy to a bedrooms of a mighty. As always with Ken Follett, a historical background is brilliantly researched as well as rendered, a movement fast-moving, a characters abounding in shade as well as emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.
In destiny volumes of The Century Trilogy, successive generations of a same family groups will travel through a good events of a rest of a twentieth century, becoming different themselves-and a century itself. With passion as well as a palm of a master, Follett brings us in to a universe you thought you knew, but now will never seem a same again.
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