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Opulent, farbenprächtig, hochspannend und zutiefst menschlich Der historische Roman »Das Reich der Mitte« von Bestseller-Autor Edward Rutherfurd entführt ins chinesische Kaiserreich des 19. Jahrhunderts und erzählt vom Zusammenprall von Ost und West, der schließlich zur Entstehung des heutigen China führte. China, 1838: das stolze Kaiserreich ist für Fremde meist unerreichbar. Abenteurer schmuggeln Opium ins Land, um es gegen Tee, die ...

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In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands - Russia.Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland, Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia's culture and her peoples - bleak ye...

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The unparallelled master of the historical saga returns, this time, with an eye on China. Beginning with the First Opium War in 1839 and continuing through the present day, Rutherfurd tells a sweeping tale that brings to life a nation's history, traditions and the people who lived through it as if by magic' NewsweekThe internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: China China in the nineteenth ce...

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An epic novel which takes in the history of Paris, the most romantic city in the world, over several centuries. Follows the success of Rutherford's previous city novels "Sarum, London" and "New York", and features 4 families bound by forbidden loves and marriages of convenience. 6 of Rutherford's novels have been "New York Times" bestsellers.

Protagonista silenzioso e affascinante di questo libro è il Tamigi, che scorre da secoli nel cuore di Londra. Dai tempi della conquista romana ad oggi, sulle sue rive si animano e si intrecciano le vicende di personaggi indimenticabili, da Julius, il giovane falsario di monete romane, a Dame Barnikel, proprietario della taverna frequentata da Chaucer, a Edmund Meredith e al gruppo di attori del Globe Theatre di Shakespeare, alla piccola Lucy c...

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Dall'era glaciale ai nostri giorni: diecimila anni di episodi privati e avvenimenti storici a Sarum, la regione dell'odierna Salisbury. In un immenso ciclo narrativo, le drammatiche vicende di cinque famiglie che, secolo dopo secolo, intrecciano i loro destini.

Edward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant i...

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