From Barnes & NobleWith novels like Pillars of the Earth, The Key to Rebecca and World Without End to his credit, Ken Follett could continue to please fans with standalone fiction. Instead, this respected, popular (100+ million copies sold) author has just embarked on an ambitious time-spanning, globe-spanning epic. Each book will focus on a new generation of five inter-related families of five distinct nationalities: American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh. This thousand-page fiction takes its main characters into some of the main theaters of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Fiction on a grand scale.
William Sheehan…in every way, a Big Book…Just as Herman Wouk did in The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Follett creates a large cast of fictional characters and deploys them across the globe, using their private experiences to illuminate the catastrophic events that marked the early years of the century…[Follett] knows how to tell a compelling, well-constructed story.
