Book description
The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion
and a multi-millionaires fancy. Over fifty years, its eccentricities
earned a place in readers hearts around the globe. But now, circulation
is down, the paper lacks a website, and the future looks bleak. Still,
those involved in the publication seem to barely notice. The obituary
writer is too busy avoiding work. The editor-in-chief is pondering
sleeping with an old flame. The obsessive reader is intent on finishing
every old edition, leaving her trapped in the past. And the publisher
seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his
magnificent basset hound, Schopenhauer. The Imperfectionists interweaves
the stories of eleven unusual and endearing characters who depend on the
paper. Funny and moving, the novel is about endings the end of life, the
end of sexual desire, the end of the era of newspapers and about what
might rise afterward. The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s,
a product of passion and a multi-millionaires fancy. Over fifty years,
its eccentricities earned a place in readers hearts around the globe.
But now, circulation is down, the paper lacks a website, and the future
looks bleak. Still, those involved in the publication seem to barely
notice. The obituary writer is too busy avoiding work. The
editor-in-chief is pondering sleeping with an old flame. The obsessive
reader is intent on finishing every old edition, leaving her trapped in
the past. And the publisher seems less interested in his struggling
newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound, Schopenhauer. The
Imperfectionists interweaves the stories of eleven unusual and endearing
characters who depend on the paper. Funny and moving, the novel is about
endings the end of life, the end of sexual desire, the end of the era of
newspapers and about what might rise afterward.
