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The rise & fall of great powers : a novel / Tom Rachman.

By: Publisher: [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2014]Description: 384 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385676953
Other title:
  • Rise and fall of great powers
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Novel about a bookseller who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Tooly Zylberberg tells a story: as a child she was stolen from home, stashed at a den of thieves, then adopted by crooks there, who ended up raising her and even using the little girl in capers around the globe. Then, a desperate message reaches her musty bookshop in Wales, and she is lured into a journey that will reveal the secret of her childhood.
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Fiction Kimberley Branch Shelves FIC Rachm (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36990002015329

Novel about a bookseller who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Tooly Zylberberg tells a story: as a child she was stolen from home, stashed at a den of thieves, then adopted by crooks there, who ended up raising her and even using the little girl in capers around the globe. Then, a desperate message reaches her musty bookshop in Wales, and she is lured into a journey that will reveal the secret of her childhood.

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