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The Rise & Fall Of Great Powers
Tom Rachman
Dial Press
June 2014
On Sale: June 10, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 0679643656
EAN: 9780679643654
Kindle: B00H12A0UK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, and Donna
Tartt—the brilliant, intricately woven new novel by Tom
Rachman, author of The Imperfectionists
Following one of the most critically
acclaimed fiction debuts in years, New York Times
bestselling author Tom Rachman returns with a brilliant,
intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the
world to make sense of her puzzling past.
Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop
in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading,
but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who
might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers
never to mention the strange events of her youth, which
mystify and worry her still.
Taken from home
as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of
seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to
Europe to the United States. But who were her abductors? Why
did they take her? What did they really want? There was
Humphrey, the curmudgeonly Russian with a passion for
reading; there was the charming but tempestuous Sarah, who
sowed chaos in her wake; and there was Venn, the charismatic
leader whose worldview transformed Tooly forever. Until,
quite suddenly, he disappeared.
Years later,
Tooly believes she will never understand the true story of
her own life. Then startling news arrives from a long-lost
boyfriend in New York, raising old mysteries and propelling
her on a quest around the world in search of answers.
Tom Rachman—an author celebrated for humanity,
humor, and wonderful characters—has produced a stunning
novel that reveals the tale not just of one woman but of the
past quarter-century as well, from the end of the Cold War
to the dominance of American empire to the digital
revolution of today. Leaping between decades, and from
Bangkok to Brooklyn, this is a breathtaking novel about
long-buried secrets and how we must choose to make our own
place in the world. It will confirm Rachman’s reputation as
one of the most exciting young writers we have.
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