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Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken 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 official and unofficial 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.
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Finally, eventually I finished reading the century trilogy! It took about 3 years but it was worth doing that.
In the final book, world situation from 1960s to 1980s was depicted. So impressing! I was so moved that I cried. In trilogy, from before WW1 to after the unification of east/west Germany. Magnificent! Characters are consist of 3 generations. The family tree in the head of the book helped me.
Main regions are east/west Berlin, USSR and USA, Vietnam and other European country are also depicted.
ついに、Century trilogyを読了しました。三年近くかかった…。三巻立て(文庫だと何冊か分かりません)、総ページ数3000強、第一次世界大戦前からベルリンの壁崩壊までを描いた群像劇。登場人物も三世代、誰が誰だかわからなくなりがちですが、本の先頭には家系図があるので大丈夫です。
最終巻の主な舞台は東西ベルリン、ソ連、アメリカ、それにベトナムやハンガリー、ポーランドなどなど。
歴史の勉強にもなるし、このストーリー構成能力にも驚かされるし、大聖堂以来、それ以上の衝撃だなー。すごい、感動、映画化希望。
In the final book, world situation from 1960s to 1980s was depicted. So impressing! I was so moved that I cried. In trilogy, from before WW1 to after the unification of east/west Germany. Magnificent! Characters are consist of 3 generations. The family tree in the head of the book helped me.
Main regions are east/west Berlin, USSR and USA, Vietnam and other European country are also depicted.
ついに、Century trilogyを読了しました。三年近くかかった…。三巻立て(文庫だと何冊か分かりません)、総ページ数3000強、第一次世界大戦前からベルリンの壁崩壊までを描いた群像劇。登場人物も三世代、誰が誰だかわからなくなりがちですが、本の先頭には家系図があるので大丈夫です。
最終巻の主な舞台は東西ベルリン、ソ連、アメリカ、それにベトナムやハンガリー、ポーランドなどなど。
歴史の勉強にもなるし、このストーリー構成能力にも驚かされるし、大聖堂以来、それ以上の衝撃だなー。すごい、感動、映画化希望。
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