Overview
Una gran novela que narra las vidas de cinco familias: una americana, una galesa, una inglesa, una alemana y una rusa, con el trasfondo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revoluci n Rusa y los profundos cambios sociales que estas conllevaron.
Primer volumen de la trilog a «The Century
La historia empieza en 1911, el d a de la coronaci n del rey Jorge V en la abad a de Westminster. El destino de los Williams, una familia minera de Gales, est unido por el amor y la enemistad al de los Fitzherbert, arist cratas y propietarios de las minas. Lady Maud Fitzherbert se enamorar de Walter von Ulrich, un joven esp a en la embajada alemana en Londres. Sus vidas se entrelazar n con la de un asesor progresista del presidente de Estados Unidos, Woodrow Wilson, y la de dos hermanos rusos a los que la guerra y la revoluci n les ha arrebatado su sue o de buscar fortuna en Am rica.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . 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 a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. 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, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families--and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .
Details
- ISBN-13: 9788499899800
- ISBN-10: 8499899803
- Publisher: Debolsillo
- Publish Date: January 2019
- Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.9 x 1.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
- Page Count: 1024