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Laddar... The Evening and the Morningav Ken Follett
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I only happened upon Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge series this summer, so unlike fans who read the first book, Pillars of the Earth, when it was published in 1989, I did not have to wait 31 years for the fourth book, which is a prequel to Pillars, taking place in the last few years of the 10th century and the early 11th. For me it was less than two months between finishing Pillars, World Without End (2007), and A Column of Fire (2010), so I had not really forgotten much. These are books that can be read as stand-alone without losing anything because there are centuries separating the stories, so the characters are different in each book. Instead the tie among the books is the place: Kingsbridge, a fictional place in south England. I enjoy Follett’s research and interesting, though sometimes predictable, storytelling. His writing is nothing special but reads well. There were a few times in this book that he used phrases or referenced items that I feel skeptical about being period-appropriate, and that was distracting to me. He acknowledged in the Acknowledgments at the end of the book that the Dark Ages have left us few records, neither writings about daily life nor surviving buildings, as most were built of wood. He writes: “This leaves room for guesswork and disagreement, more so than with the preceding period of the Roman Empire or the subsequent Middle Ages. Consequently, while thanking my historical advisers, I must add that I have not always followed their advice.” Perhaps he should have. Those distractions aside, I enjoyed this prequel more than A Column of Fire, but less than The Pillars of the Earth. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Året är 997, mörkaste medeltid i England. En mans strävan att förvandla sitt kloster till en smältdegel för kunskap mynnar ut i en storslagen berättelse om rivalitet, hat och kärlek. Trettio år efter att "Svärdet och spiran" först kom ut återvänder Ken Follett med ett nytt kapitel i Katedralserien - som utspelar sig före de tre övriga böckerna i serien om den fiktiva historiska staden Kingsbridge. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Esta precuela mantiene la tensión de principio a fin con unos personajes muy interesantes y poderosos narrativamente. En este caso es Ragna el principal con diferencia, inteligente, agraciada, desgraciada, hábil, decidida, y muchos más calificativos que le confieren un aura especial, aunque Edgar, Wynstan, Wilf, Aldred entre otros le van a la zaga por muy poco.
Las diferentes tramas confluyen con elegante sutileza con no pocas dosis de sorpresa. Muy bien. La inmersión en la época de la Inglaterra del siglo X-XI es absoluta.
Se puede leer perfectamente después del primer volumen de la saga. No es necesario leerlo en quinto lugar. Hay que leerlo. ( )