The Darkness and the Dawn, by Ken Follett

The darkness and the dawn
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The popular saying goes that you should not return to the places where you were happy. Ken follett he wanted to risk coming back.

A certain melancholy invades millions of readers who made "The Pillars of the Earth" a shared reading in parallel a few good handfuls of years ago. Because word of mouth, when this term did not yet sound like contagion, worked like never before for a total work of historical fiction, mystery and even thriller.

However If Ken Follett has wanted to come back to tell us everything from a new beginning, how can we not accompany him? Perhaps this way, little by little, we will arrive at the beginning of everything, the exile from Paradise. A way out of Eden that disposed of human beings with their bloody free will, that divine "stalk as you can" with the flavor of eternal punishment.

En The darkness and the dawn, Ken Follett embarks the reader on an epic journey that ends where The pillars of the earth begins.

Year 997, end of the Dark Ages. England faces attacks from the Welsh from the west and the Vikings from the east. Life is difficult and those who wield some power wield it with an iron fist and often in conflict with the king himself.

In these turbulent times, three lives intersect: young shipbuilder Edgar, on the verge of eloping with the woman he loves, realizes that his future will be very different from what he had imagined when his home was razed by the Vikings; Ragna, the rebellious daughter of a Norman nobleman, accompanies her husband to a new land across the sea only to discover that the customs there are dangerously different; and Aldred, an idealistic monk, dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning admired throughout Europe. The three will find themselves in a confrontation with the ruthless Bishop Wynstan, determined to increase his power at any cost.

The great master of action and suspense narrative transports us to the twilight of a violent and brutal time and the beginning of a new time in a monumental and exciting tale of ambition and rivalry, birth and death, love and hate.

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