书名:Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy 世纪三部曲3:永恒的边缘
作者:Ken Follett肯·福莱特
出版社名称:Penguin Books
出版时间:2015
语种:英文
ISBN:9780451477514
商品尺寸:11 x 3.8 x 17.8 cm
包装:平装
页数:1136
Edge of Eternity《永恒的边缘》是《巨人的陨落》的大结局!火遍的20世纪人类史诗“世纪三部曲”的第三部。我眼目睹,每一个迈向死亡的生命都在热烈地生长。
真正残酷和激烈的世界大战,是思想的大战。来自美国、德国、苏联、英国和威尔士的五大家族,又一次迎来了新的考验。东西德分裂、柏林墙、苏联秘密警察、刺杀肯尼迪、民权运动、古巴导弹危机、入侵黎巴嫩、弹劾尼克松……此外,第三代生活中还有摇滚、嬉皮士、跨种族婚恋、性解放,以及对过去的误会与和解。
说到底,世上只有一种英雄主义,就是在认清生活真相之后,依然热爱生活。
理由:
1.《巨人的陨落》大结局!读者平均3个通宵读完的小说;
2. 小说大师、爱伦·坡奖终身大师奖得主肯·福莱特代表作;
3. 相继问鼎美国《纽约时报》小说榜、《纽约时报》电子阅读榜、西班牙《世界报》小说榜。
媒体评论:
“世纪三部曲不仅是一部史诗巨著,写透了整个20世纪人类的故事,更是罕见的诞生于我们这个时代的经典。”——《纽约日报》
“小说的长短对肯·福莱特作品在的没有任何影响:其作品累计销量1.5亿册,被翻译成33种语言,风靡80多个国家。”——《华尔街日报》
“戏剧冲突和历史真实被如此生动地展现,引人入胜,福莱特是真正的大师!”——《纽约时报》
“这是福莱特的极好之作,一部真正的史诗,让人忍不住想要一口气读完。”——《赫芬顿邮报》
“宏大的背景、结构和故事巧妙交织,构成了一部扣人心弦的史诗。”——美联社
Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion.
InFall of Giants andWinter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll.
Praise for the CenturyTrilogy
“Few works set out with such a grand concept as Ken Follett’s new Century trilogy, but part one suggests that the series will be one of the literary masterpieces of our time . . . while grand events and themes are at the core of the novel, it is the richness of the characters and the intertwining of their often disparate stories that steal the show” — Sunday Times
“Perhaps no British author better illustrates the forces at work in international publishing than can give birth to, and then grow, a global brand... If such books deliver the simple pleasures of escape, maybe they hold up a distant mirror to their readers too” — Independent
“This is hi-octane storytelling, all the more powerful because the story it tells is, mostly, true. Follett’s command of the vast forces he unleashes is as impressive as the battle strategies of his generals, and in many cases more so... overall Follett is masterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so vividly” — Scotsman
“The master storyteller, Ken Follett, knits together British, American, German and Russian points of view from the start to the end of the First World War into a fascinating and remarkably fertile tapestry of society and politics” — The Times
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives... George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy’s Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own... Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he’d imagined... Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.
肯·福莱特(Ken Follett,1949— ),当代大师级惊悚小说作家。1949年6月5日生于英国威尔士,在伦敦念完大学后曾任新闻记者,后专职写作。1978年以《针眼》一书荣获埃德加·爱伦·坡佳小说奖,蜚声,年仅27岁。之后又有《圣彼得堡来客》《与狮同眠》等多部小说全世界,奠定了不可动摇的大师地位。
福莱特的作品一大特色是内容都有史实根据。历史上的真实人物与小说中的虚构角色,天衣无缝地融合在一起。其栩栩如生的人物刻画、高潮迭起的情节铺陈,精致准确的细节描绘,让读者在亦真亦幻之中,与历史时代共浮沉,和历史人物同悲喜,得到无比的乐趣。
福莱特还擅长描写爱情,用纤细动人的笔触,捕捉男女间微妙的感情变化,使他的惊悚小说同时也是的爱情小说。
Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. Follett’s first bestseller wasEye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War.
In 1989The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author’s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah’s Book Club pick.
Its sequels,World Without End andA Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.
Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.
CHAPTER ONE
Rebecca Hoffmann was summoned by the secret police on a rainy Monday in 1961.
It began as an ordinary morning. Her husband drove her to work in his tan Trabant 500. The graceful old streets of
central Berlin still had gaps from wartime bombing, except where new concrete buildings stood up like ill-matched false teeth. Hans was thinking about his job as he drove. “The courts serve the judges, the lawyers, the police, the government—everyone except the victims of crime,” he said. “This is to be expected in Western capitalist countries, but under Communism the courts ought surely to serve the people. My colleagues don’t seem to realize that.” Hans worked for the Ministry of Justice.
“We’ve been married almost a year, and I’ve known you for two, but
I’ve never met one of your colleagues,” Rebecca said.
“They would bore you,” he said immediately. “They’re all lawyers.”
“Any women among them?”
“No. Not in my section, anyway.” Hans’s job was administration:
appointing judges, scheduling trials, managing courthouses.
“I’d like to meet them, all the same.”
Hans was a strong man who had learned to rein himself in. Watching him, Rebecca saw in his eyes a familiar flash of anger at her insistence. He controlled it by an effort of will. “I’ll arrange something,” he said. “Perhaps we’ll all go to a bar one evening.”
Hans had been the first man Rebecca met who matched up to her father. He was confident and authoritative, but he always listened to her. He had a good job—not many people had a car of their own in East Germany—and men who worked in the government were usually hardline Communists, but Hans, surprisingly, shared Rebecca’s political skepticism. Like her father he was tall, handsome, and well dressed. He was the man she had been waiting for.
Only once during their courtship had she doubted him, briefly. They had been in a minor car crash. It had been wholly the fault of the other driver, who had come out of a side street without stopping. Such things happened every day, but Hans had been mad with rage. Although the damage to the two cars was minimal, he had called the police, shown them his Ministry of Justice identity card, and had the other driver arrested for dangerous driving and taken off to jail.
Afterward he had apologized to Rebecca for losing his temper. She had been scared by his vindictiveness, and had come close to ending their relationship. But he had explained that he had not been his normal self, due to pressure at work, and she had believed him. Her faith had been justified: he had never done such a thing again.
When they had been dating for a year, and sleeping together most weekends for six months, Rebecca wondered why he did not ask her to marry him. They were not kids: she had then been twenty-eight, he thirty-three. So she had proposed to him. He had been startled, but said yes.
Now he pulled up outside her school. It was a modern building, and well equipped: the Communists were serious about education. Outside the gates, five or six older boys were standing under a tree, smoking cigarettes. Ignoring their stares, Rebecca kissed Hans on the lips. Then she got out.
这本书,光是书名就带着一种扑面而来的史诗感,仿佛一脚踏入了某个宏大叙事的开端。我拿到手的时候,就被它沉甸甸的质感和那封面设计吸引住了。那种设计,不是那种花哨的炫丽,而是一种带着历史厚重感的留白和字体选择,让人立刻联想到那些厚达千页的史诗巨著。阅读的过程,简直就是一场精神上的探险。作者的笔触极其细腻,即便是描写那些宏大的历史转折点,也总能抓住那些小人物的瞬间感受。我记得有一次读到某个人物在关键时刻做出的艰难抉择,那种内心的挣扎、对未来的迷茫与对良知的坚守,被描绘得淋漓尽致,我仿佛能透过文字感受到空气中的紧张和人物的呼吸。这本书的叙事结构非常巧妙,它不是简单的线性时间推进,而是像一张巨大的网,将不同的时间线、不同的视角编织在一起,但你永远不会感到迷失。每一次章节的转换,都像是翻开了一扇新的窗户,让你从一个完全不同的角度重新审视之前发生的一切。这种叙事手法,极大地增强了故事的张力和深度,迫使读者不断地去思考事件之间的内在联系,那种“原来如此”的恍然大悟,是阅读体验中最为畅快的部分。
评分读完这本书,我产生了一种强烈的“时空错位感”,仿佛我的生活轨迹在不知不觉中被拉长,延伸到了那个遥远的、充满变数的时代。这种影响是深远的,它不只是提供了一个故事,它提供了一种观察世界的方式。作者似乎很擅长在描绘大历史的同时,不动声色地植入一些关于权力、伦理和人性本质的哲学思考。比如,关于“永恒”的定义,在书中被反复探讨,但从未给出明确的答案,而是让读者自己去体会。那些关于选择、牺牲和记忆的片段,像种子一样种在了我的心里,时不时地会在我面对现代生活中的困境时冒出来,提供一种历史的参照系。这种书籍的价值就在于此,它超越了娱乐的范畴,成为了一种对自我进行重新定位的工具。我开始用更宏大的尺度去审视日常的琐碎烦恼,很多曾经耿耿于怀的事情,在宏大的历史背景下,似乎也变得可以释怀了。
评分说实话,这本书的阅读体验,更像是在参与一场深度访谈,只不过访谈的对象是历史本身。作者对细节的考究达到了令人发指的地步,无论是对某个特定历史时期衣食住行的描绘,还是对那些历史风云人物微妙的权力博弈和内心世界的刻画,都显得无比真实可信。我尤其欣赏作者处理“灰色地带”的方式。他没有将任何角色塑造成绝对的善或恶,而是将他们置于那个特定时代和环境的巨大熔炉中,展现了人性的复杂与多变。你会看到那些曾经被历史教科书简化的人物,在作者的笔下恢复了鲜活的血肉和矛盾的灵魂。这种处理方式,极大地挑战了读者固有的认知框架,迫使我们放下预设的道德标尺,去理解“在那个情境下,他们只能如此”的无奈与挣扎。读到后面,我常常会合上书本,陷入长久的沉思,不是因为情节有多么跌宕起伏,而是因为作者成功地在我的脑海中重建了一个过去的世界,一个充满着真实人性光辉与阴影的过去。
评分对于喜爱深度历史文学的读者来说,这本书无疑是一次不容错过的盛宴。它不仅仅是关于“发生了什么”,更多的是关于“为什么会这样,以及我们能从中学习到什么”。它的厚度要求读者投入时间,但它给予的回报是成倍的。我喜欢作者在叙事中保持的那种冷静的距离感,这种距离感保证了叙事的客观性,但又不失温度。他像一位技艺高超的指挥家,调动着成千上万个“乐章”——那些历史事件和人物命运——最终汇集成一曲气势磅礴的交响乐。读到高潮部分,那种情感的冲击力是极其克制的,却又具有穿透人心的力量。它不会用廉价的煽情来取悦读者,而是用无可辩驳的逻辑和细腻入微的人性洞察来征服你。这本书真正做到了,让历史不再是冰冷的年代和事件列表,而是一部充满生命力的、关于人类挣扎与追求的宏伟史诗。
评分这本书的语言功力,简直可以用“炉火纯青”来形容,但它又不是那种故作高深的晦涩。它有一种古典的韵律感,文字排列组合之间,自带一种庄严而流畅的美感。特别是当描述那些转瞬即逝的场景或人物的内心波动时,作者会精准地找到那个最恰当的比喻或最凝练的词汇,让画面感瞬间立体起来。有时候,我甚至会为了某个句子停下来,反复品味它的结构和节奏,就像欣赏一件雕塑艺术品一样。这种对语言的掌控力,让阅读过程本身成了一种享受,而不是纯粹的信息获取。更厉害的是,尽管语言如此精妙,但它从未成为理解内容的障碍。相反,它像一副高清的滤镜,让原本可能枯燥的历史背景变得鲜活有趣。它让你在享受阅读的愉悦感的同时,也潜移默化地吸收了大量的知识和历史洞察。这是一种高级的叙事技巧,不卖弄才华,只为更好地讲述故事。
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