The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

@2@@20@@18@'Ingenious' New York Times@19@@21@@16@@20@@18@'Mesmerising' The Times@19@@21@@16@@20@@18@'Loveable' Evening Standard@19@@21@@3@@2@Nine-year-old Tooly is spirited away from Bangkok by a seductive group of outsiders who take her from city to city across the globe. At twenty, she is wandering the streets of Manhattan with a scribbled-on map, scamming strangers for her shadowy protector, Venn.@3@@2@Now, aged thirty-one, she runs a second-hand bookshop on the Welsh borders and has found peace with her strange upbringing - until she's called to return to New York to see her dying father. @3@@2@Warm, hilarious and fizzing with intelligence, @18@The Rise and Fall of Great Powers@19@ is a masterpiece about the search for identity.@3@

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One of the paciest, easiest to read novels you could imagine . . . Mesmerising: a thorough work-out for the head and heart that targets cognitive muscles you never knew you had The Times

Product details

• Authors: Tom Rachman, Rachman Tom
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9781787475465
• ISBN: 978-1-78747-546-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 205 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit