Ken Follet-Edge of Eternity (Century Trilogy)

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Author: Ken Follett

Book: Edge of Eternity (640 Pgs.)

Book Three of the Century Trilogy

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The story follows characters from Germany, Britain, the USA and the Soviet Union, who become linked by events from just before the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961 to that wall’s demise in 1989 (and in an epilogue to the night of Barack Obama’s election in 2008). Once again, the major characters are the children of the characters who were seen in the first two novels.

The novel covers a range of world events during the period, often from multiple points of view. These include the civil rights movement in the US, the Cuban Missile crisis, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War, Watergate and the Solidarity movement.

The novel also covers a range of personal events. A number of the characters form a successful rock band which performs and travels throughout the novel. Others tour the world as reporters or aides to major political figures. Characters in the US work (under six presidents) to overcome prejudice and discrimination and to win the Cold War. Characters in East Berlin and Moscow work (under five different Soviet leaders), subtly at first and then more overtly, to bring about the start of the fall of Communism. And a family split apart by the construction of the Berlin wall is eventually re-united the night that wall comes down.

Source: Wikipedia

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Ken Follett-Edge of Eternity

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