Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
Attempting to tell the tale of the 20th century is the literary equivalent of surmounting Everest. Most authors likely wouldn't even make it out of base camp. But Ken Follett is a breed apart. Since publishing his first work more than three decades ago, the British novelist has exhibited a sweeping vision that has helped him become one of the world's most popular storytellers, with more than 100 million copies of his books, including 1989's The Pillars of the Earth and its 2007 sequel, World Without End, sold around the globe over the years.
Follett's newest historical novel is Fall of Giants. The first part in his Century Trilogy, which will chronicle world-changing events throughout the 1900s. "I have never before committed to such an ambitious and wide-ranging project," Follett says of the 1,000-plus-page Fall of Giants. Chronicling the lives of five families in America, Russia, Germany, England and Wales, the epic tracks the reverberations of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women's rights across continents.
Follett brings these world-changing events into clear focus through his meticulous research, but, as readers have come to expect, he humanizes the historical mileposts with intimate portraits of a diverse group of characters, including a 13-year-old Welsh miner, an American law student working at the White House, orphaned Russian brothers set on emigrating to the States, and a British aristocrat and German spy entangled in a dangerous love affair.
"In a way," Follett says, "Fall of Giants is about understanding ourselves and where we all come from."
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