The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

By Tom Rachman.

Tooly Zylberberg is the owner of a bookstore in Wales and I think the book is about her past but I couldn’t get the hang of it. The book switches between three time periods, 1988, 1999 and 2011. With the time changing and the characters changing I didn’t know what the heck was going on – gave up about 80 pages into it.