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Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)
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This was a book my mother recommended to me. She read it several years ago and remembered how good it was. And oh how good it was. This is a great story that is told over about 60 years from Europe to America. Archer tells 2 parallel stories. One about Abel Rosnovki and one about William Kane. The story is so well told and so interesting that I felt torn between the two main characters and their stories. You feel pulled away from one story line when Archer takes you to the next. I enjoyed Archer’s historical weave throughout each chapter. Especially the history of Poland and the part it played in both World Wars. Fascinating! Each character is developed from birth by the author and he does an outstanding job of taking you thru their childhood, teenage-school years and then adulthood. So, as a reader, you really get a feel for what they are made of and why they made the decisions they made throughout their life. The stories cross paths through-out the book and the ending is a masterful surprise. I have already mooched the sequel The Prodigal Daughter which I can’t wait to read.
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January 28, 2008
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January 31, 2008
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Feb 11, 2011 12:20AM
"You feel pulled away from one story line when Archer takes you to the next." - Completely agree.
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Such a good read from beginning to end. Read all sequels until the Prodigal Daughter 15 years ago and still want to read it again. Jeffrey Archer is such a good story teller... A must read..
So throughout the book I found myself switching sides.. from Abel to Kane then back to Abel and then some more to Kane.. and throughout this tussle you realize that you cannot actually take sides because they are like two sides of the same coin.. both brilliant, ambitious, determined and utterly stubborn.. it’s a brilliant read because for the sheer coincidences by which their lives cross paths time and again...
PS.. I am in love with the simplicity with which some lines are written and the profound impact they have on the narrative as well as the reader.. case in point the line that read “cain killed Abel or Abel killed cain.. zaphia didn’t remember.. Abel did.”
PS.. I am in love with the simplicity with which some lines are written and the profound impact they have on the narrative as well as the reader.. case in point the line that read “cain killed Abel or Abel killed cain.. zaphia didn’t remember.. Abel did.”