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Loading... Edge of Eternity: Book Three of The Century Trilogy (original 2014; edition 2014)by Ken Follett
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Family Saga Don't let the 3 stars fool you. I really like Ken Follett's writing. Though I did not like this third in the Century Trilogy any where near as much as the first two, I believe I know why. Having lived through 75% of the last half of the 20th century I think I am a bit biased. It does not diminish his writing, it just wasn't as interesting or enjoyable to me. I would still recommend it to anyone that has read the first two just be prepared. El umbral de la eternidad Ken Follett Publicado: 2014 | 893 páginas Novela Histórico Serie: Trilogía The Century #3 /sQ6sToKVE_G4 Después de La caída de los gigantes y El invierno del mundo llega el final de la gran historia de las cinco familias cuyas vidas se han entrelazado a través del siglo XX. En el año 1961 Rebecca Hoffman, profesora en Alemania del Este y nieta de lady Maud, descubrirá que la policía secreta está vigilándola mientras su hermano menor, Walli, sueña con huir a Occidente para convertirse en músico de rock. George Jakes, joven abogado que trabaja con los hermanos Kennedy, es un activista del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los negros en Estados Unidos que participará en las protestas de los estados del Sur y en la marcha sobre Washington liderada por Martin Luther King. En Rusia las inclinaciones políticas enfrentan a los hermanos Tania y Dimka Dvorkin. Este se convierte en una de las jóvenes promesas del Kremlin mientras su hermana entrará a formar parte de un grupo activista que promueve la insurrección. Desde el sur de Estados Unidos hasta la remota Siberia, desde la isla de Cuba hasta el vibrante Londres de los años sesenta, El umbral de la eternidad es la historia de aquellas personas que lucharon por la libertad individual en medio del conflicto titánico entre los dos países más poderosos jamás conocidos. Competent book, but if it wasn't the third and concluding book of a trilogy that I was reading I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did. Like the others in the series it does a good job introducing readers of fiction to 20th century history, but for those who already knew the history this aspect of the story telling therefore lost its impact and left the less impressive character and plot narrative to stand alone to engage the reader.
En este último tomo de la trilogía «The Century», los protagonistas principales son los nietos de las cinco familias que conocimos por primera vez en La caída de los gigantes. Ken Follett narra las luchas, tragedias y alegrías de sus vidas personales entrelazadas con los acontecimientos principales ocurridos durante estos años. La novela arranca en 1961 y, a través de los dramas personales de los protagonistas, nos ofrece un recorrido histórico de estos años en Europa y Estados Unidos. A través de los protagonistas de El umbral de la eternidad viviremos el asesinato de John F. Kennedy y de suhermano Bobby, el levantamiento del muro de Berlín, el encarcelamiento de los disidentes soviéticos en los gulags de Siberia, la guerra de Vietnam, el escándalo de Watergate, la invasión de la bahía de Cochinos en Cuba, la invasión de Checoslovaquia por los rusos y mucho más. Distinctions
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 not only of 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 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, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw and into history. No library descriptions found. |
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