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 wi...
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.
作者简介
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肯·福莱特 Ken Follett (1949 -),现象级畅销小说大师。1978年出版了处女作《风暴岛》,并于次年获得爱伦坡奖,声名鹊起,专职写作。2010年,荣登全球作家富豪榜上第5名。2013年,获得爱伦坡终身大师奖。他的小说出版前,都会请历史学家审读书稿,绝不容许出现任何史实错误。有出版人曾指出,肯·福莱特 “没有一个饱受折磨的灵魂”,他愉快地承认了,“大家都在写内心的痛苦,可我总是觉得很开心”。他说:“很多作家只写能取悦他们自己的东西,并模模糊糊地希望这也能取悦别人。但我每写一页都在清醒地思考:读者会怎么想?读者觉得这真的会发生吗?读者关心这些吗?读者想要知道接下来会发生什么吗?我敬佩那些用文字和新奇结构进行文学实验的作家,但我从不这么玩。”
0 有用 廖了 2014-03-07 10:52:02
优秀得我浅薄的历史知识都驾驭不住了,喜欢walter
0 有用 宛在水中央 2016-08-31 23:11:54
amazing book!! fascinating! 虽然不算不眠不休地看,但也追这个故事追了几个星期。每一页都有新的故事发生,每个主角都鲜活异常,很担心他们的命运。文笔很美。
0 有用 Chloé🙃 2020-07-11 11:36:53
直接读了原版 行云流水
0 有用 漆原友纪 2019-07-21 14:53:51
听完了John Lee 朗读的版本,开始是英美德俄几个主人公各异的命运,最终都殊途同归地参与一战并在战场或政坛有了交集,青年命运的起承转合又体现了国家的兴衰,穿插着作者对战争和革命的政见,不光史料详实,情节安排也很精彩
0 有用 Emoevil 2017-03-11 19:19:58
战线拉得太长,故事太散了