epic The English cathedral stones: a haunting medieval thriller. Ken Follett is known as a master of American thriller of the most traditional, well qu'haletants. These pages stakeholders in which FBI agents and Soviet spies to track down amid drug trafficking and political plots. With
The Pillars of the Earth , this master excel pen comes in a unique genre with a gusto that few can boast. He gives us indeed a historical thriller, a suspense novel River Electric in England in the thirteenth century.
Tom the Builder is a mason. He lost the site where he works and must take the journey with his pregnant wife, Agnes, and their two children. They travel the country in search of a site where Tom could achieve his dream of building his own cathedral. But soon the famine that is picked in the winter night. Even small sites are so rare that Tom relies on the forest to feed his family. Thus they will meet with Ellen and her son Jack, who lived alone in the forest. For his part, Philip is a monk since he was collected and raised by a brotherhood. It is now prior of a small monastery, St. John of the Forest. Itself, pious and pragmatic, quick-witted and brilliant must fulfill his destiny by avoiding all the dangers: the unparalleled cruelty of a noble family soon at the head of County Shiring, ambition without limits Waleran Bigod Archdeacon Bishop who soon will continually setting traps to Prior.
Many paths cross in the thousand pages of the pad that you can not sit on the bedside table. A decisive event every ten pages from hopeless situations in meetings and heartbreak, it is a work pure and brilliant, a bit raw, sometimes violent, but a realism that is portrayed in absolute rights, medieval society, ambition. It is also the tale of the difficulty of pursuing his ideals without ever turning his back on his principles. And every stone will build more than the most magnificent cathedrals of England.
The Pillars of the Earth is one of those books you lasting impression. Lecture, there are few who grow such literary qualities and philosophical.
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