Children of freedom
Children of Freedom (Original: Edge of Eternity ) is a historical novel by the British writer Ken Follett from 2014. After the fall of the titans and winter of the world, it is the third part of the trilogy "The saga of the century". As in the first two parts, Ken Follett tells the story of different families from different countries and their entanglements.
Subject
The novel deals with the stories of several families from Germany , the United Kingdom , the Soviet Union, and the United States who set in the times of the Cold War up to the fall of the Berlin Wall . The main characters are mostly in close contact with historical personalities from contemporary history, such as Robert F. Kennedy , Martin Luther King , Nikita Khrushchev or Leonid Brezhnev .
Characters of the novel
American
George Jakes (* 1936) is the illegitimate son of Jacky Jakes and Greg Peshkov. He took part in the Freedom Ride and studied law at Harvard University until 1961 . After graduating, he turned down an offer to work for a well-known Washington law firm and instead began working as an advisor in the United States Department of Justice under Robert F. Kennedy .
Maria Summers (* 1936) also took part in the Freedom Ride in 1961. She works in the White House press office and begins a love affair with President John F. Kennedy .
Jacky Jakes
Cameron "Cam" Dewar (* 1946) takes unusually conservative views compared to his peers. From 1969 he worked in the White House under President Richard Nixon . Later he is employed by the CIA.
Ursula "Beep" Dewar (* 1948) is the daughter of Woody Dewar.
Russians
Dimka Dworkin is the son of Ilja and Anja Dworkin, born. Peshkov. He works as a consultant for the Soviet party leader Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev and his successor, among others .
Tanja Dworkin is the twin sister of Dimka Dworkin. The journalist is critical of Soviet socialism and in 1962 her boss first sent her to Cuba to report on the Cuba crisis . Back in the Soviet Union, she tries to get her dissident friend, Vasily Jenkow, free from a Siberian labor camp.
Anja Dworkin , mother of Dimka and Tanja Dworkin.
English people
Dave Williams (* 1948) is the son of Labor MP Lloyd Williams and his wife Daisy, b. Peshkov. He dreams of a career as a rock musician and joins his cousin's band The Guardsmen . From 1964 this is called Plum Nellie .
Evie Williams (* 1946) is the sister of Dave Williams. She starts a career as a film and theater actress.
Jasper Murray began a career as a journalist in the United States and witnessed the murder of Martin L. King. In 1968 he was drafted into the army as part of the Vietnam War . Marked by the events of the war, he is particularly critical of politics under Richard Nixon.
German
Rebecca Hoffmann is the Francks' adopted daughter. She learns that her husband is spying on her on behalf of the Stasi and flees to the West. Later she joins the FDP .
Bernd Held , a teacher and colleague of Rebecca Hoffmann, flees with her to the West, where he remains paraplegic after falling from a house roof. Bernd Held and Rebecca Hoffmann later get married.
Lili Franck is the daughter of Werner and Carla Franck, b. from Ulrich.
Walli Franck is the brother of Lili Franck and a talented guitarist. He dreams of a career as a musician and goes to England with his cousin to make it big with the band Plum Nellie .
Karolin is the mother of Alicia, the child of Walli Franck. When Valais flees the GDR, she is pregnant and hesitates at the last moment before fleeing to protect the unborn child. She later marries a pastor.
Alicia Franck is the daughter of Karolin and Walli. She grew up in the GDR and dreams of meeting her father Walli Franck, who first lived in the USA and later in West Germany.
Hans Hoffmann is the ex-husband of Rebecca Hoffmann and a Stasi agent. Hans Hoffmann was married to Rebecca Hoffmann to spy on the Francks. He is found out and tries to make the life of the Francks hell through Stasi methods.
expenditure
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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy. 1st edition. Pan Macmillan, 2014, ISBN 978-0-2307-1016-0 .
- Children of Freedom: The saga of the century . Translated from English by Dietmar Schmidt and Rainer Schmacher. Bastei Lübbe, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7857-2510-8 . (Number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list for 23 weeks in 2014 )
- Children of Freedom: The saga of the century . Bastei Lübbe, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7857-5004-9 . (Audiobook)
- Children of Freedom: The saga of the century . Lübbe Digital, 2014. (Kindle Edition, 11,802 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edge of Eternity , ken-follett.com (official homepage of Ken Follett), accessed October 16, 2014.