Used book – The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett, Jean Rosenthal

In 12th-century England, ravaged by war and famine, people fight for power, glory, holiness, love, or simply to survive. Battles are fierce, chances prodigious, nature cruel. Frescoes are painted with sword strokes, destinies are shaped with axes, and cathedrals are built with miracles... and holy cunning. Hatred reigns, but so does love, constantly battered, sometimes wounded, but ultimately victorious when a God, often too distracted, allows himself to be touched by the faith of men.

Leaving the world of espionage behind, Ken Follett, the master of suspense, delivers with The Pillars of the Earth a monumental work whose plot, with its constant twists and turns, is based on extraordinary historical research. Carried from hangings to murders, from the English forests to the heart of Andalusia, from Tours to Saint-Denis, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the whirlwind of a superb romantic epic that he would wish never to end.