# The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

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- Book: [The Rise and Fall of Great Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-rachman/the-rise-and-fall-of-great-powers) ([The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-rachman/the-rise-and-fall-of-great-powers.md))
- Authors: [Tom Rachman](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-rachman)
- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-17-8747-546-5
- Published: 2018-11-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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.