The rise and fall of great powers
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The rise and fall of great powers
AUTHOR:
Rachman, Tom.
ISBN:
9781444752335
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Sceptre, 2015.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
406 p. ; 20 cm
ABSTRACT:
Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still. Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States.
SUBJECT:
| Women booksellers -- Fiction. |
| Americans -- Wales -- Fiction. |
| Early memories -- Fiction. |
| Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still. Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States.