World Without End, by Ken Follett
Posted on May 10, 2008
Filed Under Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, Ken Follett, Thriller, bestseller, book review |
This book is a follow-up on the enormously popular Pillars of the Earth. 
I couldn’t write another book about building a cathedral, because that would be the same book. And I couldn’t write another story about the same characters, because by the end of ‘Pillars’ they are all very old or dead. World Without End takes place in the same town, Kingsbridge, and features the descendants of the ‘Pillars’ characters two centuries later.”
At the heart of the story in World Without End is the plague known as the Black Death, and how this affects society and characters. Another historical event influencing English society at the time is the war between England and France.
Follett returns to 14th-century Kingsbridge with an equally weighty tome that deftly braids the fate of several of the offspring of Pillars‘ families with such momentous events of the era as the Black Death and the wars with France. Four children, who will become a peasant’s wife, a knight, a builder and a nun, share a traumatic experience that will affect each of them differently as their lives play out from 1327 to 1361.
World Without End is a wonderful historical novel by Ken Follett. It is exciting and engaging, full of plots and sub-plots, and to a large extent character driven in its action. And of action, there is, of course, plenty. This book really is hard to put down. I liked it a lot!
Other great books by Follett: The Pillars of the Earth
Boken kan også bestilles fra Bokkilden (på engelsk).
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