![]() The latest and last installment in the Century Trilogy spills over into our own time, closing with Barack Obama’s electrifying speech in Chicago on winning his first term as president-an emotional moment, considering the struggle some of Follett’s protagonists have endured to see it happen. ![]() One might forgive the reader for taking Follett’s title literally at first glance after all, who has time for the eternity of a 1,100-plus–page novel, especially one that’s preceded by a brace of similarly hefty novels? Happily, Follett, while not delivering the edge-of-the-seat tautness of Eye of the Needle (1978), knows how to turn in a robust yarn without too much slack, even in a book as long as this. ![]() Another sprawling, multigenerational, continent-spanning saga from long-practiced pop-fiction writer Follett ( Winter of the World, 2012, etc.). ![]()
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