Edge of Eternity: Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, 3)

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When she had raised the issues that had got in the way of her previous relationships—her feminism, her anti-Communism, her closeness to Carla—he had given all the right answers. Now, for Reagan, he asserts that he's even worse than Tricky Dick, and that he got away with murdering innocents during the Iran-Contra affair. The book ends with an epilogue set on November 4, 2008, the night of Barack Obama's election to President of the United States. The seond book ends with him being a leading Labor MP and him digging up Ty Gwyn's gardens for coal. Rebecca looked around for something else to throw at him, and her gaze fell on the matchstick model of the Brandenburg Gate.

Took me a while to get into this last book in the Century Trilogy series but once I got over handling a brick whilst trying to read it, I was fine. 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. The Germany narrative is also told from the perspectives of Rebecca's siblings, Walli and Lili Franck.Many critics focused on the tension between the novel's length and deep dive into history and the novel's compelling treatment of that history. George is mixed-race; his father is the white US Senator Greg Peshkov and his mother is the African-American actor Jacky Jakes with whom Greg had an affair.

or deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature,but it's enjoyable ,and engrossing all the same. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but also a much more personal battle. Beginning in 1961, almost two decades after the end of World War II, the novel depicts a post-war Britannia that is no longer the master of the high seas. According to Publisher's Weekly, Edge of Eternity is "the mesmerizing final installment in an exhaustive but rewarding reading experience dense in thematic heft, yet flowing with spicy, expertly paced melodrama, character-rich exploits, familial histrionics, and international intrigue. Vietnam was pretty glossed over earlier, and I shit you not, there is not a single mention of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, despite there being two POV characters based out of the USSR and the theme of the USSR losing money and status being a central theme of the later chapters.

Nota: Confesso que concluí este livro há bastante tempo, o que significa que já se me varreram muitos detalhes da trama. I don't go and see the latest Hollywood Blockbuster expecting to have a profound cultural experience. Finally, the revisionist history of memorable events is riddled with so much banal liberal bias that it ruins the storyline involving people/events in the U. Another character(more SPOILERS), one of the more redeeming ones, decides to cheat on her disabled husband with another man.