Staff Pick: The Imperfectionists

The Imperfectionists: a novel
By Tom Rachman

Set in the not-too-distant past, when the phrase “hot off the presses” still had meaning, the novel focuses on an English-language paper in Rome. Capturing the hectic pace that characterizes a newsroom, the novel unfolds in short chapters, each of which is centered around a different employee. The paper that unites these disparate personalities is on the brink of collapse, which makes their stories all the more poignant. Rachman, a newspaperman himself, knows whereof he writes. This is a skillfully executed portrait of a culture that may soon be obsolete.
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