Fall Of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) -

Ken Follett

Pan MacMillan Paperback Omes

2010

944 páginas

1d 7h 28m

ISBN-10: 0330460552

This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.

It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot 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.

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Acho que nem preciso dizer que depois de ler Mundo sem fim e Os Pilares da Terra, me apaixonei por Ken Follett. E não via a hora de ler o mais novo livro dele, Queda de Gigantes, o primeiro volume da trilogia (óbvio, se eu gosto…) O Século. Logo nas primeiras páginas já pude perceber que o livro seria maravilhoso. E não me enganei. Apesar das oitocentas e tantas páginas, dá pra ler rápido (só não acabei antes porque depois que comecei a ler voltei de férias no trabalho e na faculdade)...

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