- Fiction, Great Britain, New York Times bestseller, Peste Negra
En 1327, quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtrière dans les bois : un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre mystérieuse, dont le secret pourrait bien mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre. Depuis ce jour, le destin des enfants se trouve lié à jamais.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ken Follett
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 1179
- Publisher
- Lubbe, New American Library, Penguin USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 46
- Language
- German, French, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781447218715
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“Gwenda was eight years old, but she was not afraid of the dark.”
Ken Follett is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more then 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list : *The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple* and *World Without End*.
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