There’s no simple answer, because a novel is so complex. Many times in the last twenty-five years, I have been asked why “Pillars” has had such a big impact.
In the 25th anniversary edition of this wonderful novel, Follett explores why he thinks this particular story made such a splash: To say the book was a sensation would be an understatement. In 1989, he decided to take a risk and publish his first ever historical fiction novel. Ken Follett is known worldwide as an author of spy thrillers, but for decades the story of a 12th-century cathedral in a town called Kingsbridge and the people who helped build it was always in the back of his mind. Who were the people who decided to make these spectacular buildings and what might have their lives have been like? These are just some of the questions that Ken Follett wanted to try and answer in his monumental historical fiction masterpiece, “The Pillars of the Earth”. We see cathedrals as these massive buildings from the past used as churches, but we rarely think about how they were constructed and why. One hardly thinks about the construction of a magnificent building as an “epic tale” with monks and builders as the main characters.
When one thinks about epic tales stories of adventures and romance tend to come to mind.
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