The Imposters is the first novel in stories that Tom Rachman has written since his international bestseller The Imperfectionists.An astonishing achievement brutally funny, humane, dizzying will win Rachman the readership he deserves Patrick GaleEasily the best thing I have read in ages Rebecca WaitClever and full of tricks from start to finish SpectatorIts set during a crisis in democracy, a society in lockdown linked digitally but convulsed by a social media frenzy, and is told by a littleknown, littleread Dutch novelist named Dora Frenhofer who has decided that her life as an old woman in this posttruth pandemic world has become too much.But like a twentyfirst century Scheherazade Dora spins stories to fend off the evil day, conjuring connections from her past to give meaning to the present. She imagines the fate of her missing brother, lost on the hippie trail in India in the sixties the loneliness of her estranged daughter Beck, whose career writing standup shows for Netflix dramatizes the culture wars Danny, an almost equally unfashionable writer she meets at a festival the tortured history of the van driver who takes her unwanted books away the nonchalant courier who nearly ran her over in the rain her former lover, the sophisticated food critic her last remaining friend. And finally, Doras own last chapter.The Imposters is Rachman at his inimitable best, a writer whose formal ingenuity and flamboyant technique is matched by his humanity and generosity.

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 368 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 26

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