The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

Name: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Author: Tom Rachman

by Tom Rachman

Three strangers navigate art, ambition, and empire across decades globally

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Tom Rachman

Canadian-British novelist whose debut The Imperfectionists, set in a failing English-language newspaper in Rome, was a celebrated novel of interconnected stories. His subsequent fiction is equally precise and compassionate. He is an important voice in contemporary literary fiction.

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The ImperfectionistsInterwoven lives of journalists at a struggling international newspaper
The Italian TeacherComplicated family saga about art, ego, and legacy in postwar Europe
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