The Rise and Fall of Great Powers - Softcover

Rachman, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787475468 ISBN 13: 9781787475465

Publisher: riverrun, 2018

Synopsis

'Ingenious' New York Times
'Mesmerising' The Times
'Loveable' Evening Standard

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.

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.

Warm, hilarious and fizzing with intelligence, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers is a masterpiece about the search for identity.

About this title

About the Author

Born in London and raised in Vancouver, Tom Rachman was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press stationed in Rome, then an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He is the author of three novels, the international bestseller The Imperfectionists; The Rise and Fall of Great Powers and The Italian Teacher, as well as a short stories collection, Basket of Deplorables. He lives in London.

Edition details

• Publisher: riverrun
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787475468
• ISBN 13: 9781787475465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384