Book info

• Title Edge of Eternity
• Author Ken Follett
• Year 2014
• Genre Historical

Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during the Cold War. A Fight Against Injustice: 1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration and fierce supporter of the civil rights movement, boards a Greyhound bus in Washington with Verena, an employee of Martin Luther King whom he is in love with, to protest against segregation. A Rising Tide of Danger: In East Germany, teacher Rebecca Hoffmann finds her entire life has been a lie as she is targeted by the secret police, even as her younger brother, Walli, dreams of escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain. In Russia, activist Tania Dvorkin narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news-sheet, her actions all the more perilous because her brother, Dimka, is an emerging star of the Communist Party.A Cold War That Could Eliminate the World Forever: In a sweeping tale that began in 1911, the descendants of five families will now find their true destiny as they fight for their individual freedom in a world facing the mightiest clash of superpowers it has ever seen.

Thoughts

I was given a physical copy of this book and boy was it a big book, so heavy that my hands (more used to ebooks at this point) were aching sometimes during a longer reading session. But it’s worth it. The book covers various interlinked characters across the world - their hopes, dreams, romances and losses - during significant events such as the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the assassination of JFK and his brother, as well as race riots, communism, and much more. As you’d expect with Follett, it’s supremely well written, absolutely gripping despite it’s length and fully engaging from start to finish.

Rating: 4 / 5