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Let's talk about the author, Ken Follett has written twenty novels in the last twenty-five years, Night on the Waters (1991), Kenneth Martin Follett, better known as Ken Follett, is a British writer of suspense and historical novels, The writer Ken Follett will publish his new novel Never (Plaza & Janés) on November 11 in Spain, a work in which he will address a global crisis that threatens to lead to the outbreak of the Third World War and that recommends read Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ken Follet was born in Cardiff in 1949. He studied Philosophy at University College London, and worked as a journalist for the South Wales Echo and the Evening News. After publishing some works under a pseudonym, in 1978 he achieved enormous worldwide success with La Isla de las Tormentas, which would be followed by other forays into the spy novel genre, such as The Key is in Rebeca or The Eagle Wings At the end of the eighties he made his debut in the historical novel with Los pilares de la tierra (1989), a work that became one of the greatest publishing phenomena of the last decades and that in 2007 would lead to Un mundo sin fin , a long-awaited sequel turned into an immediate best-seller. In 2010 he published The Fall of the Giants, the first part of the «Century» trilogy, in which the author tells the story of five families throughout the 20th century, and later The Winter of the World and the Threshold of Eternity.
Primera página: «Era el avión más romántico jamás construido. De pie en el muelle de Southampton, a las doce y media del día en que se declaró la guerra, Tom Luther escudriñaba el cielo, esperando el avión con el corazón sobrecogido de ansiedad y temor. Canturreaba por lo bajo unos compases de Beethoven sin cesar: el primer movimiento del Concierto Emperador, una melodía emocionante, apropiadamente bélica.
A su alrededor se había congregado una multitud de espectadores: entusiastas de los aviones provistos de prismáticos, niños y curiosos. Luther calculó que esta debía de ser la novena vez que el clíper de la Pan American aterrizaba en aguas de Southampton, pero continuaba siendo una novedad. El avión era tan fascinante, tan encantador, que la gente corría a verlo incluso el día en que su país entrada en guerra. Al lado del mismo muelle había dos magníficos transatlánticos, que se alzaban sobre las cabezas de los allí reunidos, pero los hoteles flotantes habían perdido su magia; todo el mundo vigilaba el cielo.
Sin embargo, mientras aguardaba, la gente hablaba de la guerra, con su acento inglés. La perspectiva excitaba a los niños; los hombres hablaban en voz baja de tanques y artillería, como expertos en la materia; la expresión de las mujeres era sombría. Luther era norteamericano, y confiaba en que su país se mantendría al margen de la guerra: no era su problema.»
Front page: «It was the most romantic airplane ever built. Standing on the Southampton dock at 12:30 on the day war was declared, Tom Luther scanned the sky, waiting for the plane, his heart heavy with anxiety and fear. He was humming a few bars of Beethoven under his breath incessantly: the first movement of the Emperor Concerto, a moving melody, appropriately warlike.
A crowd of onlookers had gathered around him: airplane enthusiasts with binoculars, children, and onlookers. Luther reckoned this must be the ninth time the Pan American clipper had landed in Southampton waters, but it was still a novelty. The plane was so fascinating, so charming, that people ran to see it even on the day their country entered the war. Beside the same dock were two magnificent ocean liners, towering over the heads of those gathered there, but the floating hotels had lost their magic; everyone was watching the sky.
Yet while he waited, people were talking about the war, with their English accent. The prospect excited the children; the men spoke in low voices of tanks and artillery, as experts in the matter; the women's expression was grim. Luther was an American, and he was confident that his country would stay out of the war: it wasn't his problem."
This book surpassed everything, it immerses you from the first line takes you to the year 1939, when Germany declared war on England, not exactly immersed in the war the author tells us the stories parallels of several families embarking on a seaplane trip to the United States and an unexpected setback for almost everyone that takes place in the middle of the ocean.
Really and being honest I must tell you that this is a book that when you start reading you simply cannot stop until you finish, the author explained everything without leaving details to the air, I was very satisfied with This lecture! I recommend it, we will find the story of businessmen, adventurers or artists who flee from the misery that a war brings in the last luxury seaplane that takes off for the United States, it is incredible how varied and diverse each character and how they intertwine in the history! Almost everything happens inside the plane 😃 It has some history and Geography do not stop reading it It is full of intrigue, passion and adventure and I must add that it has a very unexpected ending! Really an enjoyable read of those that you can not leave until the end.