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Edge of Eternity

The Century Trilogy, Book 3

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Edge of Eternity

Auteur(s): Ken Follett
Narrateur(s): John Lee
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Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.

Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of 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 Hoffman 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, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw - and into history.

As always with Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, he brings us into a world we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.

©2014 Ken Follett (P)2014 Penguin Audio
Fiction de genre Historique Russie Fiction Union soviétique Impérialisme Socialisme Guerre du Vietnam Amérique Latine Guerre Mouvement social Droits civils Droit Guerre froide Justice sociale Autodétermination

Ce que les critiques en disent

"[Follett] is a commanding storyteller who has taken on an impossibly large task and accomplished it with passion, intelligence, and skill. Like its predecessors, Edge of Eternity is a solid, rigorously researched work of popular fiction. 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 good, old-fashioned storytelling." (The New York Daily News)

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what an amazing story. starting in the coal fields of 1900s Britan, through both world wars thru massive political change, ending with the fall of the wall. now more then ever this tale is key. with the slipping away from a free and democratic world the Woke DEI pundants have betrayed the dream of MLK and all those freedom fighters who stood up against hate. I view the Trump election as a continuance of this story. a return to the core values of the Americam story.

wow!

soul wrenching journey

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a great capstone to an amazing trilogy. the reader, the narrative, all a+ in my book

what an ending

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Another amazing story from Ken Follett! This series is another captivating exploration of recent history. John Lee’s narration is stunning as usual.

Epic

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You know what you get when you dive into these epic books! I loved them all. The reader is a little too mechanical/ Stuccato in his his delivery but the story seems to take over to cover that issue. If you like historical fiction you will love these. I learned quite a lot as well.

Follett Never Disappoints

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When I started this trilogy I thought it looked like it was going to be really long, but it turned out to end too quickly. Highly recommended to anyone looking for a great and entertaining story and a bit of history.

A truly terrific trilogy!

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great book, as always

download quality was sketchy though which disrupted the flow a few times.

excellent final installment.

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I love this book. I think I like this book best because I’ve been alive for the majority of these events. I am most wish you would write another series based on the troubles in the Middle East that started almost to soon as this book ended. I would recommend this book, and this series, to anybody who likes history. It is well researched, information packet, and has characters that you come to love.

Best book of the trilogy.

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The author obviously spent many research hours in order to write a story which encompasses three generations of political turmoil.
Well done!!

Well read

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loved it....narrator exceptional. only want to read books by John Lee.....
way to go

amazing

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John Lee is a fantastic reader who really brings the characters to life. Ken Follet does a great job of mixing history and fiction.

Entertaining, but not as good as the first two.

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