Tom Rachman

Tom Rachman talks about his new novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Taken from home as a girl, Tooly Zylberberg found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States. But who were her abductors? Why did they take her? What did they really want?

Tom Rachman discusses his debut novel, The Imperfectionists. It follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome.