The rise and fall of great powers
By: Tom Rachman
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781444752335; 9781444752366
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Americans; Women booksellers; Early memories; Self-actualization (Psychology); Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: First published: 2014.