Rise and Fall of Great Powers
by Tom RachmanHigh-quality intellectual! Yes, I mean you! You are thinking: What is Rise & Fall of Great Powers? Is history book? No! Is book for give big muscles? No, no! (After read this book, you still contain only small muscles.
Sorry.
) It is NOVEL about entire of world in last quarter-century, from end of Cold War, to up and down of America power, to tech revolution of today.
But mostly, is novel about my favourite person, Tooly Zylberberg, and secrets of her life.
I am careful now - danger I say too much.
I give only bit more: Tooly is bookseller in countryside of Wales.
Always, she is reading.
But one story she never understand: story of her past.
When she is girl, strange items happen.
She is taken away, around Asia, Europe, America, for many years with mystery persons.
Why for? I cannot say on back of book!One of mystery persons is me, Humphrey, old man from Russia who cheats in Ping-Pong and eats avocados.
There is Sarah, who drives us crazy, and not in good way.
Also, there is Duncan and Fogg and potbelly pig.
And there is Venn, who is most mystery person of all.
The boy who write this book, his name is Tom Rachman.
Maybe you hear of his first novel, The Imperfectionists? Bestseller book, publish in many language.
Rise & Fall is very beauty follow-up.
When you read it, you visit late Eighties, also Year 2000, also today; you see Bangkok, you see Brooklyn, you see bordertowns - also many places that are not begin with letter 'B'.
What novel this is! Not for trivial beings, but I don't worry: just to look at you, I can tell you have very large brain.
So, what you wait?Spanning three decades and criss-crossing the globe, THE RISE AND FALL OF GREAT POWERS is the story of Tooly Zylberberg and how she got to a second-hand bookshop in Wales via the streets of Manhattan and downtown Bangkok.
This novel, dazzling in its scope and inventiveness, is peopled by an extraordinary array of unforgettable characters, from Humphrey the chess-playing Russian ?migr? to Venn, Tooly's shadowy protector.
- First published
- 2045
- Publishers
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Language
- English
It is the characters that make this book worth reading.
Ok. I'm putting it out there in my review - Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists is one of my favourite books.
"Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking.
About Tom Rachman
Tom Rachman is the author of four works of fiction: his bestselling debut, The Imperfectionists (2010), which was translated into 25 languages; the critically acclaimed follow-up, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (2014); a satirical audiobook-in-stories Basket of Deplorables (2017); and an upcoming novel set in the art world, The Italian Teacher (March 2018).Born in London and raised in Vancouver, Tom studied cinema at the University of Toronto and journalism at Columbia University in New York. He worked at The Associated Press as a foreign-news editor in Manhattan headquarters, then became a correspondent in Rome. He also reported from India, Sri Lanka, Japan, South Korea, Egypt, Turkey and elsewhere. To write fiction, he left the AP and moved to Paris, supporting himself as an editor at the International Herald Tribune. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and newyorker.com, among other publications. He lives in London....
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