Author: Ken Follett
After the extraordinary success of international repercussion achieved by the first book of this trilogy, A Queda dos Gigantes, we pick up the story where we left it. The second generation of the five families whose lives we follow in the first volume gradually take the lead, alongside historical figures and in the context of real situations, from the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War, during the fierce struggle between the Allies and the Axis powers, the Holocaust, the beginning of the atomic age inaugurated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, until the beginning of the Cold War. As in the previous volume, the entire painting is offered to us as a vast fresco that evolves at a pace of ever-increasing complexity.
