Winter of the World
Author:Ken Follett
Mass Market Paperback: 640 pages
Publisher: Pan Books; Open market ed edition (30 July 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1447231139
ISBN-13: 978-1447231134
Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 5.8 x 11.2 cm
Book Des cription
Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany.
Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. He also encounters a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler - but are they willing to go so far as to betray their country?
Such people are closely watched by Volodya, a Russian with a bright future in Red Army Intelligence. The international clash of military power and personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in London's East End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, from Spain to Stalingrad, from Dresden to Hiroshima.
At Cambridge Lloyd is irresistibly drawn to dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything his left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and leading light of the British Union of Fascists. Back in Berlin, Carla worships golden boy Werner from afar. But nothing will work out the way they expect as their lives and the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest and cruellest war in the history of the human race.
Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying trilogy 'The Century'. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.
About the Author
Ken Follettwas twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. He then surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate millions of readers all over the world and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End, was a number one bestseller in the US, UK and Europe.
Fall of Giants, the first bestselling book in the Century trilogy is followed by this, Winter of the World.
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评分坦白说,阅读这本书是一个耗费精力的过程,它需要你全神贯注,因为稍有走神就可能错过一两条影响后续走向的关键对话或细微的心理转折。但这种“挑战性”恰恰是它吸引我的地方。它不是那种可以轻松消磨时间的消遣读物,而更像是一次智力上的探险。作者的高明之处在于,他将复杂的历史进程包装在引人入胜的故事外衣之下,使得即便是对特定历史时期不甚了解的读者,也能通过人物的命运和情感纠葛来理解其间的因果循环。每当我合上书本,总有一种被历史信息充分浸泡后的充实感,仿佛自己的知识边界被拓展了,对人类文明发展的复杂性和偶然性有了新的体悟。这本书的价值,不在于提供标准答案,而在于引导我们去提出更深刻的问题。
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评分这本书的魅力很大一部分来源于其多视角的叙事策略。它没有将焦点仅仅锁定在某一个国家的政治决策者身上,而是将目光投向了更广阔的欧洲大陆乃至全球。通过穿梭于不同地理位置和不同社会阶层的故事线索,作者成功地编织了一张复杂而又紧密的时代之网。你可以在伦敦感受到金融市场的暗流涌动,转眼间又置身于东欧战场的硝烟弥漫之中。这种无缝的切换,极大地拓宽了读者的历史视野,让人明白了所谓的“世界大事件”是如何由无数个微小的、发生在不同角落的个体事件汇聚而成的。阅读体验就像是在观看一部顶级制作的史诗电影,镜头语言丰富,场景切换流畅,每一个细节都服务于整体的宏大主题,让人在不知不觉中对那个时代的整体图景有了更立体、更深刻的理解。
评分这本厚重的精装书摆在书架上,光是看着就觉得分量十足,仿佛能从中触摸到历史的脉搏。每次翻开扉页,那种油墨和纸张混合的独特气味总是能瞬间把我拉回到那个波澜壮阔的时代。作者对于宏大叙事的掌控力实在令人佩服,他总能在一团乱麻的历史事件中,精准地找到那些牵动人心的细微之处。那些描绘战争、政治博弈和时代变革的章节,读起来酣畅淋漓,让人肾上腺素飙升。尤其是一些关于关键决策如何扭转乾坤的细节,被他写得如同悬疑小说般引人入胜,你明明知道历史的大方向,却依然会为书中人物的每一次抉择而捏一把汗。更让我赞叹的是,即便是那些涉及复杂军事部署或国际条约的描述,也处理得丝毫不拖泥带水,反而充满了逻辑的美感,仿佛在阅读一幅精心绘制的史诗地图。这本书不仅仅是文字的堆砌,更像是一次沉浸式的历史体验,让人在阅读的过程中,不断地反思人性在极端环境下的复杂性与韧性。
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