The Fall of Giants follows the lives of seven different narrators in multiple different countries through World War I and the Russian revolution. Each character is impacted by the war in some way, and is trying to find the right path to lead to a brighter future. The novel follows themes such as war, women’s rights, and love.
Ken Follett was born in Wales, "in a little terrace house in Cardiff in 1949. It was very much a petit-bourgeois background. My dad was a clerk in the Inland Revenue [English equivalent of the IRS], a...
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Ken Follett, author of best-selling thrillers such as Eye of the Needle, Triple, The Key to Rebecca, The Man from St. Petersburg, The Third Twin, The Hammer of Eden, Code to Zero, and the 2001 title, ...
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Ken Follett began his career as a fiction writer while working for the London Evening News. He produced a series of mysteries and thrillers (two for children) under various pseudonyms until he felt he...
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