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Black is a high finance novel, murder mystery, revenge saga and social realist
piece— all literary categories that Follett would work with more competently in
later years. Even the fascination with medieval cathedrals is brought into The Big
Black when Carstairs absorbs “the eternity-feeling from the centuries-old stone,
the carved font, the vaulted nave and the rugged carpentry of the seven-hundredyear-old main door,” and is prompted to reflect on “love and