NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - The Seattle Times - The Globe and Mail - Kirkus Reviews - Daily Mail - The Vancouver Sun Z autora Italian Teacher a Imperfectionists comes a brilliant a intricately woven žena, ktorá cestuje po celom svete, aby sa vydala z jej puzzling pasca. Pozrite sa vzadu na knihu pre rozhovor medzi Tom Rachman a JR Moehringer zaoberajúca sa jedným z mostov critically aclaimed fiction debuts v rokoch, New York Times bestselling author Tom Rachman odpovedá s brilantnou, intricately woven noviel o mladej žene world to make sense of hier puzzling pasca. Tooly Zylberberg, americký vlastník izolovaných bookshopov vo Welsh krajiny, vedenia a život plný čítania, ale s niekoľkými ľudskými beings. Books are safer than people, kto might ask awkward questions o her life. Sem prefers never to mention strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still. Takýto z domova ako dievča, Tools found herself spirited away by skupina seductive outsiders, implicated in capers z Asia do Európy do USA. But who were her abductors? Why did they take hier? What did they really want? Tieto boli Humphrey, curmudgeonly Russian with passion for reading; There was the charming but tempestuous Sarah, who sowed chaos in her wake; and there was Venn, the charizmatický lídrom, ktorý prešiel worldview transformovaný nástrojov preveriť. Until, quite suddenly, he disappeared. Later roky, Tooly believes she will never understand the true story of jej own life. Tieto štartovacie novinky prichádzajú z dlhého týždňa v New Yorku, zvyšujú staré mysterie a prepelujú jej na quest okolo sveta v prieskume answers. Tom Rachman--an author oslavovaný humanitou, humorom, a krásne charaktery-has vyrábaný a stunning novely, ktoré ukazujú, že nie je len jedna žena, ale past pastierskej-century ako dobre, od konca studenej vojny k the dominancie of American empire to the digital revolution of today. Leaping medzi decades, a z Bangkok do Brooklyn, to je breathtaking noviel o dlhé zriadené tajomstvo a ako sme mali ísť na to, aby naše miesto v celom svete. It will confirm Rachman's reputation as one of the most exciting mladých writers we have. Praise for The Rise & Fall of Great Powers