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Libro The rise and fail of great powers. Sinopsis libro, reseña libro. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers begins in a dusty bookshop. What follows is an abduction, heated political debate, glimpses into strangers’ homes, and travel around the globe. It’s a novel of curious personalities, mystery, and lots of books: volumes that the characters collect, covet, steal.
Tooly Zylberberg, owner of a bookshop in the Welsh countryside, spends most of her life reading. Yet there’s one tale that never made sense: her own life. In childhood, she was spirited away from home, then raised around Asia, Europe and the United States. But who were the people who brought her up? And what ever happened to them?
There was Humphrey, a curmudgeon from Russia; there was the charming but tempestuous Sarah, who hailed from Kenya; and there was Venn, the charismatic leader who transformed Tooly forever. Until, quite suddenly, he vanished.
Years later, she has lost hope of ever knowing what took place. Then, the old mysteries stir again, sending her – and the reader – on a hunt through place and time, from Wales to Bangkok to New York to Italy, from the 1980’s to the Year 2000 to the present, from the end of the Cold War, to the rise and wobbles of U.S. power, to the digital revolution of today. Libro The rise and fail of great powers.
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Look! STARS! Five of them, no less.
This may well be my book of the year. I wondered, after The Imperfectionists, I wondered how Mr. Rachman would follow that, where he would go from there. He went EVERYWHERE. A quarter century of this planet’s history, an intriguing puzzle to be solved, narrated through characters that steal your heart, told with wit and laugh-out-loud funny dialogue, built in a dizzying architectural marvel that follows the dictate of the fonction fabulatrice referenced therein, picking up a speed and dynamic towards the end that leaves you breathless, and it’s serious too! BIG themes, Communism and Capitalism and Rootlessness and Connectedness and What Makes Us Human, and Right and Wrong and Common Decency and, and, and I just love it when books talk to each other, Humphrey gives Tooley a copy of The World of Yesterday yay! AND there’s a ukele too! What more could you want? Loved it. Loved it loved it loved it.