《永恒的边缘》是《巨人的陨落》的大结局！火遍全球的20世纪人类史诗“世纪三部曲”的第三部。我亲眼目睹，每一个迈向死亡的生命都在热烈地生长。
真正残酷和激烈的世界大战，是思想的大战。来自美国、德国、苏联、英国和威尔士的五大家族，又一次迎来了新的考验。东西德分裂、柏林墙、苏联秘密警察、刺杀肯尼迪、民权运动、古巴导弹危机、入侵黎巴嫩、弹劾尼克松……此外，第三代生活中还有摇滚、嬉皮士、跨种族婚恋、性解放，以及对过去的误会与和解。
说到底，世上只有一种英雄主义，就是在认清生活真相之后，依然热爱生活。
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives.…George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy’s Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own.…
Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he’d imagined.…Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw – and into history.
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The ending is surprisingly touching: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the renunion of loved ones, and the voice of Barrack Obama. The finishing touch of the novel is genuinely a stoke of genius.