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.
這本厚重的精裝書擺在書架上,光是看著就覺得分量十足,仿佛能從中觸摸到曆史的脈搏。每次翻開扉頁,那種油墨和紙張混閤的獨特氣味總是能瞬間把我拉迴到那個波瀾壯闊的時代。作者對於宏大敘事的掌控力實在令人佩服,他總能在一團亂麻的曆史事件中,精準地找到那些牽動人心的細微之處。那些描繪戰爭、政治博弈和時代變革的章節,讀起來酣暢淋灕,讓人腎上腺素飆升。尤其是一些關於關鍵決策如何扭轉乾坤的細節,被他寫得如同懸疑小說般引人入勝,你明明知道曆史的大方嚮,卻依然會為書中人物的每一次抉擇而捏一把汗。更讓我贊嘆的是,即便是那些涉及復雜軍事部署或國際條約的描述,也處理得絲毫不拖泥帶水,反而充滿瞭邏輯的美感,仿佛在閱讀一幅精心繪製的史詩地圖。這本書不僅僅是文字的堆砌,更像是一次沉浸式的曆史體驗,讓人在閱讀的過程中,不斷地反思人性在極端環境下的復雜性與韌性。
評分坦白說,閱讀這本書是一個耗費精力的過程,它需要你全神貫注,因為稍有走神就可能錯過一兩條影響後續走嚮的關鍵對話或細微的心理轉摺。但這種“挑戰性”恰恰是它吸引我的地方。它不是那種可以輕鬆消磨時間的消遣讀物,而更像是一次智力上的探險。作者的高明之處在於,他將復雜的曆史進程包裝在引人入勝的故事外衣之下,使得即便是對特定曆史時期不甚瞭解的讀者,也能通過人物的命運和情感糾葛來理解其間的因果循環。每當我閤上書本,總有一種被曆史信息充分浸泡後的充實感,仿佛自己的知識邊界被拓展瞭,對人類文明發展的復雜性和偶然性有瞭新的體悟。這本書的價值,不在於提供標準答案,而在於引導我們去提齣更深刻的問題。
評分這本書的魅力很大一部分來源於其多視角的敘事策略。它沒有將焦點僅僅鎖定在某一個國傢的政治決策者身上,而是將目光投嚮瞭更廣闊的歐洲大陸乃至全球。通過穿梭於不同地理位置和不同社會階層的故事綫索,作者成功地編織瞭一張復雜而又緊密的時代之網。你可以在倫敦感受到金融市場的暗流湧動,轉眼間又置身於東歐戰場的硝煙彌漫之中。這種無縫的切換,極大地拓寬瞭讀者的曆史視野,讓人明白瞭所謂的“世界大事件”是如何由無數個微小的、發生在不同角落的個體事件匯聚而成的。閱讀體驗就像是在觀看一部頂級製作的史詩電影,鏡頭語言豐富,場景切換流暢,每一個細節都服務於整體的宏大主題,讓人在不知不覺中對那個時代的整體圖景有瞭更立體、更深刻的理解。
評分我是一個對細節要求比較高的人,尤其是在閱讀曆史題材作品時,總擔心作者為瞭追求戲劇效果而犧牲瞭真實性。但這本書在這方麵做得非常齣色,那種紮實的考據和對史實的尊重,讓整個故事的基石無比牢固。你可以感覺到作者投入瞭巨大的心血去研究那個特定時期的社會風貌、技術發展乃至日常生活的細節。比如,書中對某一時期工業生産綫運作的描述,那種機械的、重復的、卻又充滿革新力量的場麵,描繪得栩栩如生,讓人仿佛能聽到機器的轟鳴聲。這種對“真實”的執著,讓虛構的人物和情節得以在厚重的曆史背景下煥發齣可信的光彩。每次讀完一個主要情節段落,我都會忍不住去查閱相關的曆史資料,驚喜地發現書中的許多背景設定都建立在嚴謹的曆史事實之上,這無疑極大地增強瞭閱讀的深度和滿足感。
評分說實話,拿到這本書的時候,我有點被它的體量嚇到瞭,簡直像塊磚頭,但真正沉浸進去後,時間感完全消失瞭。這本書的敘事節奏把握得極妙,高潮迭起,張弛有度。它不是那種平鋪直敘的流水賬曆史,而是充滿瞭戲劇性的張力。我特彆喜歡作者在處理不同國傢、不同階層人物命運交織時的那種細膩筆觸。你會看到那些身處權力中心呼風喚雨的大人物,也深陷於時代洪流的泥淖之中,他們的光鮮亮麗和內心的掙紮被刻畫得入木三分。那些細膩的情感描寫,比如失落、背叛、堅守和微弱的希望,纔是真正打動人心的部分。讀到某些段落,我甚至能清晰地感受到當時人們的焦慮與迷茫,仿佛自己也成瞭那個時代的一個普通參與者,體會著曆史巨輪碾過時個體生命的渺小與偉大。這本書的文字功底毋庸置疑,遣詞造句間既有史詩般的厚重感,又不失現代敘事的流暢性,讀起來非常過癮。
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