The Imperfectionists

‘The Imperfectionists joins that short list of fine novels about journalism, which includes Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop…’ * Age *
‘Rachman paints the characters’ small dramas and private disappointments with humanity and humour.’ * New Yorker *
‘So good I had to read it twice simply to figure out how he pulled it off…The novel is alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching.’ * New York Times Book Review *
‘The Imperfectionists is a precise playful fiction, with a deep but lightly worn intelligence.’ * Times Literary Supplement *
‘The Imperfectionists is a winning mixture of warmth, wit, poignancy, quiet insight and powerful melodrama.’ * Courier-Mail *
‘The Imperfectionists will strongly satisfy…a magnificent tribute to the fall of newspapers.’ * Vogue *
‘A clever critique of the newspaper industry, and a fascinating character study into damaged people.’ * Marie Claire *
‘[A] zinger of a debut…Chapters read like exquisite short stories, turning out the intersecting lives of the men and women who produce the paper…there are more than enough sublime moments, unexpected turns and sheer inky wretchedness to warrant putting this on the shelf next to other great newspaper novels.’ (starred review) * Publishers Weekly *

Tom Rachman was born in 1974 in London, and grew up in Vancouver. He has worked as an editor at the foreign desk of The Associated Press in New York, as an AP correspondent in Rome and as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Rachman now lives in London. The Imperfectionists was longlisted for the The Giller Prize, and Rachman’s second novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, will be published by Text in June 2014.

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