The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Tom Rachman

'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.

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