The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Author | : Tom Rachman |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781787475472 |
ISBN-13 | : 1787475476 |
Rating | : 4/5 (476 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Great Powers written by Tom Rachman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.