Starling

San Francisco, 1890: Will Hamilton enjoys a privileged life indeed. As heir to a magnificent fortune and mercantile empire, he is secure in the knowledge that all doors are open to him. But when his mother dies, everything changes. He is confronted with a series of devastating revelations. Nothing is what it seems. Or ever has been. Scarred by the blaze of sudden knowledge, he walks out of the Hamilton mansion vowing never to return, to shed his past in every detail. This, however, turns out to be more complicated and difficult than he imagined. No amount of distance can offer him refuge from his family"s dark secrets, nor can a new life and real love forestall the cascading events that tangle lives of three generations for the next twenty years. An epic family saga of love and survival, "Starling" plays out across the globe. The people whose worlds so improbably collide spin a tale interwoven with sweeping events of the age- mass immigration to America, the great San Francisco earthquake, the dawn of World War I. And they tell another story as well, one that stands outside time and place: A story about the inestimable power of the kindness of strangers. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Starling