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font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Edge of Eternity <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Edge+of+Eternity&rft.author=%5B%5BKen+Follett%5D%5D&rft.date=16+September+2014&rft.place=United+Kingdom&rft.series=Century+Trilogy"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Edge_of_Eternity.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Edge_of_Eternity.jpg/220px-Edge_of_Eternity.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="341" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Edge_of_Eternity.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="255" data-file-height="395" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Follett" title="Ken Follett">Ken Follett</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data">Century Trilogy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">16 September 2014</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="/wiki/Hardcover" title="Hardcover">Hardback</a>), <a href="/wiki/Ebook" title="Ebook">Ebook</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-230-71016-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-230-71016-0">978-0-230-71016-0</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Giants_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fall of Giants (novel)">Fall of Giants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winter_of_the_World" title="Winter of the World">Winter of the World</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Edge of Eternity</b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Historical_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical novel">historical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Family_saga_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Family saga novel">family saga novel</a> by Welsh-born author <a href="/wiki/Ken_Follett" title="Ken Follett">Ken Follett</a>, published in 2014. It is the third book in the <i>Century Trilogy</i>, after <i><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Giants" title="Fall of Giants">Fall of Giants</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Winter_of_the_World" title="Winter of the World">Winter of the World</a></i>. </p><p>The novel tells the story of the third generation of families developed in the first two novels and located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Soviet Union during the height of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. The novel's characters become involved in a number of the most significant global events during the period, including the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>, the <a href="/wiki/British_Invasion" title="British Invasion">British Invasion</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Presidency of John F. Kennedy">Kennedy Administration</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate scandal</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edge_of_Eternity_(novel)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot summary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The story follows characters from Germany, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, who become linked by events from just before the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin wall</a> in 1961 to that wall’s demise in 1989 (and in an epilogue to the night of <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>’s <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">election</a> in 2008). Once again, the major characters are the children of the characters who were seen in the first two novels. </p><p>The novel covers a range of world events during the period, often from multiple points of view. These include the <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a> in the US, the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>, the assassinations of President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate scandal</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity movement</a> in Poland. </p><p>The novel also covers a range of personal events. Others tour the world as reporters or aides to major political figures. Characters in the US work (under six presidents) to overcome prejudice and discrimination and to win the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. Characters in <a href="/wiki/East_Berlin" title="East Berlin">East Berlin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> work (under five different Soviet leaders), subtly at first and then more overtly, to bring about the start of the fall of Communism. And a family split apart by the construction of the Berlin wall is eventually re-united the night that wall comes down. </p><p>Unlike the first two volumes, which gave considerable attention to British politics and charted the rise of the British Labor Party to prominence, culminating with the party's victory under <a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a> in 1945, this subject is nearly absent from the present volume. In the course of the book's plot, most British characters move to the United States and become involved in its politics, rather than the British ones. For example, the 1979 elections victory of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> gets no reference at all in the book, though it happened in the period covered by it. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edge_of_Eternity_(novel)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Here are the principal Point-of-view characters around which the plot revolves:<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>George Jakes</b>, a young half-black/half-Russian graduate of <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a> working in the office of <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Kennedy Administration">Kennedy Administration</a>. He is the illegitimate son of Jackie Jakes and Senator Grigori "Greg" Peshkov.</li> <li><b>Rebecca Hoffman</b>, a teacher in <a href="/wiki/East_Berlin" title="East Berlin">East Berlin</a>, the adopted daughter of Carla von Ulrich and her husband Werner Franck. Originally married to Hans Hoffman, she discovers he is an undercover <a href="/wiki/Stasi" title="Stasi">Stasi</a> agent. Soon after the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a> is erected, she flees to the west with another schoolteacher, Bernd Held, whom she later marries.</li> <li><b>Walli Franck</b>, Rebecca's musical younger brother who escapes East Germany to become an international <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rockstar" class="extiw" title="wikt:rockstar">rock star</a>. He is forced to leave behind his pregnant girlfriend Karolin (also a singer). Karolin is then taken in by the Franck/Von Ulrich family.</li> <li><b>Lili Franck</b>, Rebecca and Walli's youngest sister who protests the <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">Communist</a> government of <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a> by singing subversive songs.</li> <li><b>Dave Williams</b>, the son of Lloyd Williams and Daisy Peshkov and grandson of Earl Fitzherbert; first cousin of George and second cousin of Walli, a <a href="/wiki/Dyslexic" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyslexic">dyslexic</a> young musician who become an international rock star and <a href="/wiki/Music_producer" class="mw-redirect" title="Music producer">music producer</a>. He and Walli become the core of the band "Plum Nellie". He falls in love with Cameron's younger sister, Ursula "Beep" Dewar.</li> <li><b>Dmitri Dvorkin</b>, a young <a href="/wiki/Apparatchik" title="Apparatchik">apparatchik</a> in the USSR working for <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> as an aide during the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>. The grandson of General Grigori Peshkov. Although he believes in Communism, he is disgusted with the inefficient and conservative leadership of the Soviet bureaucracy, especially after Khrushchev is deposed, and is constantly on the search for a reformist leader - eventually involved in helping <a href="/wiki/Gorbachev" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorbachev">Gorbachev</a> rise to power.</li> <li><b>Tanya Dvorkin</b>, Dmitri's twin sister, a journalist and star <a href="/wiki/Reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Reporter">reporter</a> for the official Soviet <a href="/wiki/TASS" title="TASS">TASS</a> news agency, publicly adhering to the official <a href="/wiki/General_line_of_the_party" title="General line of the party">party line</a> - while at the same time secretly writing and disseminating <a href="/wiki/Anti-Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Soviet">anti-Soviet</a> articles and smuggling out forbidden writings for publication in the West - very dangerous activities, that could have dire consequences if discovered.</li> <li><b>Cameron Dewar</b>, a <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> student at <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">UC Berkeley</a> who joins the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Presidency of Richard Nixon">Nixon Administration</a>, and assists in Nixon's use of <a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal#Wiretapping_of_the_Democratic_Party's_headquarters" title="Watergate scandal">illegal espionage on political opponents</a>. He later becomes a <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> agent stationed in <a href="/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic" title="Polish People's Republic">Communist Poland</a>.</li> <li><b>Jasper Murray</b>, the son of Daisy's German-Scottish friend Eva Murray; an <a href="/wiki/Investigative_journalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigative journalist">investigative journalist</a>, he comes to America to report on the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a> but is then drafted to fight in the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, where he participates in <a href="/wiki/War_Crimes" class="mw-redirect" title="War Crimes">War Crimes</a> committed by US troops.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Genre_and_style">Genre and style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edge_of_Eternity_(novel)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Genre and style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a series of historical novels, the whole Century Trilogy revolves around an episodic treatment of history, highlighting the most significant events of the 20th century by immersing characters in those events. In doing so, Follett covers almost all of the major historical events between 1961 and 2008, the termination of the novel. Steve Novak of the <i><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette" title="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a></i> described the novel as "an extremely extensive refresher course [in history]. This isn’t just a few snapshots of history — this is a miniseries."<sup id="cite_ref-Novak_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Novak-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Novak points to Follett's deliberate choices about representing the past that make the treatment of history successful; Novak quoting an interview in which Follett said "The research and effort at authenticity is more difficult when you’re writing about history that is within living memory."<sup id="cite_ref-Novak_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Novak-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite this exhaustive treatment of history, most reviewers noted the quality of the reading experience. Novak describes the novel as better than a history book, by thrusting the reader into the "immediacy of the events described".<sup id="cite_ref-Novak_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Novak-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Historical_Novel_Society" title="Historical Novel Society">Historical Novel Society</a> reviewer Viviane Crystal describes this skilled character development as what saves the novel from being "a skimming of the surface of history" is that the "set of characters [...] live and engage in all these events over the years, with romance, terror, frustration, determination, fury and celebration."<sup id="cite_ref-HNR_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HNR-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Steve Donoghue of <a href="/wiki/Open_Letters_Monthly" title="Open Letters Monthly">Open Letters Monthly</a> notes, however, this approach to the historical novel follows a conceit commonly used in historical fiction, saying its "oldest gimmick in the historical fiction bag of tricks, the eyewitness-to-history trick in which the author invents a character or cast of characters who just happen to be in the room when the great and the mighty eat, fornicate, and make the decisions that change the course of nations."<sup id="cite_ref-OLM_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OLM-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edge_of_Eternity_(novel)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many critics focused on the tension between the novel's length and deep dive into history and the novel's compelling treatment of that history. Critic Steve Novak for the <i><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette" title="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a></i> said that "Reading any 1,100-page book is a chore, but if you stay with “Edge of Eternity,” Mr. Follett’s characters just might grow on you."<sup id="cite_ref-Novak_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Novak-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Publishers of Weekly described the novel as the "mesmerizing final installment is an exhaustive but rewarding reading experience dense in thematic heft, yet flowing with spicy, expertly paced melodrama, character-rich exploits, familial histrionics, and international intrigue."<sup id="cite_ref-PW_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PW-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edge_of_Eternity_(novel)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For an exhaustive list of the cast of characters at the beginning of the novel, see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ken-follett.com/bibliography/edge_of_eternity/characters.html">the list on Follett's Website</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200616213926/http://ken-follett.com/bibliography/edge_of_eternity/characters.html">Archived</a> 16 June 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> or in the preface of the novel.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edge_of_Eternity_(novel)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Novak-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Novak_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Novak_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Novak_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Novak_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNovak2014" class="citation web cs1">Novak, Steve (5 October 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2014/10/05/Edge-of-Eternity-Ken-Follett-completes-his-popular-Century-Trilogy/stories/201410050036">"Edge of Eternity': Ken Follett completes his popular Century Trilogy"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Edge+of+Eternity%27%3A+Ken+Follett+completes+his+popular+Century+Trilogy&rft.date=2014-10-05&rft.aulast=Novak&rft.aufirst=Steve&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.post-gazette.com%2Fae%2Fbooks%2F2014%2F10%2F05%2FEdge-of-Eternity-Ken-Follett-completes-his-popular-Century-Trilogy%2Fstories%2F201410050036&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdge+of+Eternity+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HNR-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HNR_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrystal2014" class="citation journal cs1">Crystal, Viviane (August 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/edge-of-eternity/">"Edge of Eternity"</a>. <i>Historical Novel Review</i> (69).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Historical+Novel+Review&rft.atitle=Edge+of+Eternity&rft.issue=69&rft.date=2014-08&rft.aulast=Crystal&rft.aufirst=Viviane&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhistoricalnovelsociety.org%2Freviews%2Fedge-of-eternity%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdge+of+Eternity+%28novel%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-OLM-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-OLM_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDonoghue2014" class="citation journal cs1">Donoghue, Steve (7 September 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190805101449/http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-edge-of-eternity/">"Book Review: Edge of Eternity"</a>. <i>Open Letters Weekly</i>. 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title="Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer">Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Crosses" title="White Crosses">White Crosses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Side_Gallery" title="East Side Gallery">East Side Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie_Museum" title="Checkpoint Charlie Museum">Checkpoint Charlie Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topography_of_Terror" title="Topography of Terror">Topography of Terror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mauerpark" title="Mauerpark">Mauerpark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_Reconciliation" title="Chapel of Reconciliation">Chapel of Reconciliation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Berlin_border_crossings" title="Berlin border crossings">Border crossings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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href="/wiki/List_of_deaths_at_the_Berlin_Wall" title="List of deaths at the Berlin Wall">People who died<br />breaching the Wall</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Brueske" title="Klaus Brueske">Klaus Brueske</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Peter_Fechter" title="Killing of Peter Fechter">Peter Fechter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winfried_Freudenberg" title="Winfried Freudenberg">Winfried Freudenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian-Peter_Friese" title="Christian-Peter Friese">Christian-Peter Friese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Gueffroy" title="Chris Gueffroy">Chris Gueffroy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marienetta_Jirkowsky" title="Marienetta Jirkowsky">Marienetta Jirkowsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cengaver_Katranc%C4%B1" title="Cengaver Katrancı">Cengaver Katrancı</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erna_Kelm" title="Erna Kelm">Erna Kelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Kukuczka" title="Czesław Kukuczka">Czesław Kukuczka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horst_Kutscher" title="Horst Kutscher">Horst Kutscher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Litfin" title="Günter Litfin">Günter Litfin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorit_Schmiel" title="Dorit Schmiel">Dorit Schmiel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egon_Schultz" title="Egon Schultz">Egon Schultz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olga_Segler" title="Olga Segler">Olga Segler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ida_Siekmann" title="Ida Siekmann">Ida Siekmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinz_Sokolowski" title="Heinz Sokolowski">Heinz Sokolowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hildegard_Trabant" title="Hildegard Trabant">Hildegard Trabant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Urban_(Berlin_Wall_victim)" title="Rudolf Urban (Berlin Wall victim)">Rudolf Urban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christel_and_Eckhard_Wehage" title="Christel and Eckhard Wehage">Christel and Eckhard Wehage</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">Others associated<br />with the Wall</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Schabowski" title="Günter Schabowski">Günter Schabowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riccardo_Ehrman" title="Riccardo Ehrman">Riccardo Ehrman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Honecker" title="Erich Honecker">Erich Honecker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Schumann" title="Konrad Schumann">Konrad Schumann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Ulbricht" title="Walter Ulbricht">Walter Ulbricht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hasselhoff" title="David Hasselhoff">David Hasselhoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jutta_Fleck" title="Jutta Fleck">Jutta Fleck</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">The Wall in speeches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<i><a href="/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner" title="Ich bin ein Berliner">Ich bin ein Berliner</a></i>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!" title="Tear down this wall!">"Tear down this wall!"</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">In popular culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films and<br />TV series</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Escape_from_East_Berlin" title="Escape from East Berlin">Escape from East Berlin</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_(1962_film)" title="The Wall (1962 film)">The Wall</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stop_Train_349" title="Stop Train 349">Stop Train 349</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Came_In_from_the_Cold_(film)" title="The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (film)">The Spy Who Came In from the Cold</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Freiheit_(film)" title="Freiheit (film)">Freiheit</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Funeral_in_Berlin_(film)" title="Funeral in Berlin (film)">Funeral in Berlin</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Soldier_(1982_film)" title="The Soldier (1982 film)">The Soldier</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Octopussy" title="Octopussy">Octopussy</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gotcha!_(film)" title="Gotcha! (film)">Gotcha!</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wings_of_Desire" title="Wings of Desire">Wings of Desire</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Judgment_in_Berlin_(film)" title="Judgment in Berlin (film)">Judgment in Berlin</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Promise_(1995_film)" title="The Promise (1995 film)">Das Versprechen</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sonnenallee" title="Sonnenallee">Sonnenallee</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tunnel_(2001_film)" title="The Tunnel (2001 film)">The Tunnel</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Soldiers_(2001_film)" title="Buffalo Soldiers (2001 film)">Buffalo Soldiers</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Bye,_Lenin!" title="Good Bye, Lenin!">Good Bye, Lenin!</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bornholmer_Stra%C3%9Fe_(film)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bornholmer Straße (film) (page does not exist)">Bornholmer Straße</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bridge_of_Spies_(film)" title="Bridge of Spies (film)">Bridge of Spies</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atomic_Blonde" title="Atomic Blonde">Atomic Blonde</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deutschland_89" title="Deutschland 89">Deutschland 89</a></i> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Documentaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_the_Wall" title="The Road to the Wall">The Road to the Wall</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1962_film)" title="The Tunnel (1962 film)">The Tunnel</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rabbit_%C3%A0_la_Berlin" title="Rabbit à la Berlin">Rabbit à la Berlin</a></i> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Came_in_from_the_Cold" title="The Spy Who Came in from the Cold">The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Funeral_in_Berlin" title="Funeral in Berlin">Funeral in Berlin</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Judgment_in_Berlin" title="Judgment in Berlin">Judgment in Berlin</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Am_k%C3%BCrzeren_Ende_der_Sonnenallee" title="Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee">Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Edge of Eternity</a></i> (2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/West_of_the_Wall" title="West of the Wall">West of the Wall</a>" (1962)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Holidays_in_the_Sun_(song)" title="Holidays in the Sun (song)">Holidays in the Sun</a>" (1977)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Nikita_(song)" title="Nikita (song)">Nikita</a>" (1985)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Berlin_Wall_(video_game)" title="The Berlin Wall (video game)"><i>The Berlin Wall</i> (1991 video game)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Day_the_Wall_Came_Down" title="The Day the Wall Came Down"><i>The Day the Wall Came Down</i> (1997 sculpture)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Berlin_Wall_segments" title="List of Berlin Wall segments">List of Berlin Wall segments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_station" title="Ghost station">Ghost station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steinst%C3%BCcken" title="Steinstücken">Steinstücken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cross_border_commuters_in_the_Berlin_area_1948%E2%80%931961" title="Cross border commuters in the Berlin area 1948–1961"><i>Grenzgänger</i> (Cross-border commuters)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shame_(performance_art)" title="The Shame (performance art)">The Shame</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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