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The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman (view source)
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Tooly (Matilda) Zylberberg, runs a small independent book shop in Caergenog, close enough to Hay on Wye to attract literary festival overflow. She loves and understands literature which is more than can be said about her understanding of her parents. In fact Tooly doesn't even know who her parents are. She had a weird childhood being taken from one city or country to another by Paul but she never got to ask why or even who he was. The sum of her knowledge was that he worked in IT and seemed to take care of her… or rather she took care of him. So one day she leaves her able assistant Fogg to keep the shop going and retraces her life, hopefully finding the answers to the questions she never got around to asking.
This is American author [[:Category:Tom Rachman|Tom Rachman's]] second novel. His first, [[The Imperfectionist Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman|The ImperfectionistImperfectionists]] knocked us out here at Bookbag Towers. It centred on the world of newspapers and used his insider knowledge as a journalist to great effect. For this tome he points his creative finger of quirkiness towards something totally different.
It begins as a humorous look at an unlikely pair in a small Welsh borders town/village bookshop (topically published now, during the Hay-on-Wye Festival). I settled down to a well observed examination of the beleaguered world of the independent but then Tooly takes off and everything changes. Small village becomes global village and the focus becomes Tooly; it becomes her very well in fact.
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