 |  | Giganternes Fald : Ny trilogi fra Ken Follett |
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Du kan godt glæde dig! Giganternes Fald er et gigantisk stort anlagt episk drama, og det første bind i "Century Trilogien". Først bind følger fem forskellige men forbundne familier og deres færd gennem store verdensrystende dramaer som Første Verdenskrig og Den Russiske Revolution. Dette første bind udkommer i september på engelsk, og jeg glæder mig. Jeg har selv læst Jordens søjler og Uendelige verden, og de var pragtfulde! Hvis denne nye trilogi bare tilnærmelsesvis smager lidt af disse to, er man sikret mange timers spændende underholdning. Tilføjelse: Jeg har lige læst følgende fra Ken Folletts egen officielle website: Fall of Giants To be published on 28 September 2010 .. The Danish edition, Giganternes Fald, will be published by Cicero Kan ikke rigtig blive klog på, om bogen udkommer oversat på denne dato - eller den bliver udgivet på originalsproget i de omtalte lande (heriblandt Danmark). Forfatterens egen beskrivelse: Fall of Giants is a magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in the Century trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage, Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man’s world in the Welsh mining pits”¦Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House”¦two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription and revolution”¦Billy’s sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London”¦. These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes of the Century trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves - and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Ken brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again. Det bliver SÅ stort at læse de bøger, tror jeg ;-) | ||||||||||||||
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