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。”
作者官方网站:www.ken-follett.com
Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself."
-The Denver Post on World Without End
Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as "well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot" ( The Washington Post ) and "wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story" ( St. Louis Post- Dispatch )
Fall of Giants is his 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 Follett, 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, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.
相比于它“平均三天三夜读完”的宣传,书本身要逊色很多。读完之后让我觉得它的宣传有点恶心。书本身格局很大,本可以成为《战争与和平》那样地位的作品,可惜作者没有完全驾驭住。描写一战但书中正面描写战场的篇章却少的可怜,对士兵心理的描写也不让人信服。各个人物政治立...
评分微信公号:别离以前(bieliyiqian) 从小我就喜欢读大部头的故事书,沉迷进去之后,每每废寝忘食。 遇见金庸之后,这个爱好推向极致。我曾用一个通宵加两个白天看完了《倚天屠龙记》,后来又重读过数遍,虽然情节早已谙熟于心,每次却还是舍不得中途放下。 当一本小说开始吸引...
评分文|傅小展 书十分打八五分 听说福莱特的地位不亚于金庸在国人心里的地位,加上他肚子里的真材实料以及对历史知根知底的个性,证实了他确实是一个好作家。同时对于翻译是我在《海风中失落的血色馈赠》以来,认可的第二本好翻译的作品。可想它的流畅与耐读决不逊于任何一本国文...
评分1、不用记一长串外国人名 因为书里名字很长的人都当不了主角!比如“特奥巴登•冯•贝特曼•霍尔维格”,太长,pass!“茉黛”,赞,又短又好记,所以是女主角之一。而且,就像美剧每集都有前情提要一样,书里每次重要人物出场,都会有一段个性化的外貌、举止描写,很细...
评分故事讲的是第一次世界大战,当然就战争故事来说,他的节奏太快了(这里我要安利写二战的小说《战争与回忆》系列,看的比较从容),节奏快的会感觉不太经看,我本来做好了这么厚三本我可以玩半个月的准备(因为我只在上下班地铁和躺床的时候才看书),后来几天就结束了,怅然若...
一开始很不错。到一战了,和战事一样,拖得太长,读到生厌。还是没有the pillars of the earth好。
评分我觉得我好久没有这么酣畅淋漓的读本中规中矩的小说了,特别怀念中学的时候可以在床头捧着本书读到3、4点的劲头。这大概是除了红楼梦之外读的最厚的一本书了。一直对一战的历史特别模糊,只知道是欧洲大乱炖,没有想到居然是这么可笑的一个trigger。五个家族错综复杂的交错的人生让人唏嘘不已。我只希望第二本书里能天降正义Lev,看得我简直生气!
评分好看到放不下来,还可以顺便学习历史。对女性人物的刻画尤其精彩。哪位大大去把改编权买下来吧,这题材和构思翻拍成迷你剧再合适不过了。
评分太精彩了!Will never look at WWI, Russia's revolution, or women's suffrage in the same way ever again。将近1000页都是看小说学历史的典范。后两本在欧洲一边旅行一边读就太开心了!
评分通宵文学不是盖的,倒也不是多么跌宕起伏,但的确很抓人,让人想要一直读下去
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