The Rise and Fall of Great Powers av Tom Rachman

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<p><b><i>''Ingenious'' New York Times</i></b><br><b><i>''Mesmerising'' The Times</i></b><br><b><i>''Loveable'' Evening Standard</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>Warm, hilarious and fizzing with intelligence, <i>The Rise and Fall of Great Powers</i> is a masterpiece about the search for identity.</p>