![]() ![]() The Imperfectionists interweaves the stories of eleven unusual and endearing characters who depend on the paper. And the publisher seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound, Schopenhauer. The obsessive reader is intent on finishing every old edition, leaving her trapped in the past. The editor-in-chief is pondering sleeping with an old flame. The obituary writer is too busy avoiding work. Still, those involved in the publication seem to barely notice. But now, circulation is down, the paper lacks a website, and the future looks bleak. Over fifty years, its eccentricities earned a place in readers’ hearts around the globe. ![]() The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire’s fancy. ‘A precise, playful fiction with a deep but lightly worn intelligence’ – Times Literary Supplement The charming and enthralling story of an idiosyncratic English-language newspaper in Rome and the lives of its staffers as the paper fights for survival in the internet age. ![]()
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