Tom Rachman- The Imposters

Tom Rachman’s debut, the New York Times bestselling The Imperfectionists, was a novel-in-stories, each chapter told of a different character in the news business at a time of journalistic tumult. (Rachman was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press stationed in Rome, then an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris.) His new novel, THE IMPOSTERS , spotlights a different writer per chapter set in our moment of cultural tumult--a standup-comedy writer in LA; a delivery driver hired to write fake-news in London; a pretentious Brooklyn author struggling through a literary festival in Australia. At the center in all ways is Dora Frenhofer, a once successful novelist who knows her mind is going and is determined to finish her final book and reverse her fortunes. The plot stops in New Delhi and New York, Copenhagen and Los Angeles, Syria to Paris, inhabiting the perspectives of Dora’s missing brother, her estranged daughter, a lover, and her last remaining friend. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, Dora creates, and is in turn created by, the characters from her own life. Tom Rachman is the author of five works of fiction: his bestselling debut, The Imperfectionists (2010), which was translated into 25 languages; the critically acclaimed follow-up, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers (2014); a story collection, Basket of Deplorables (2017); a novel set in the art world, The Italian Teacher (2018); and a novel-in-stories about writers, The Imposters (2023).Born in London and raised in Vancouver, Tom studied cinema at the University of Toronto and journalism at Columbia University in New York. He worked at The Associated Press as a foreign-news editor in Manhattan headquarters, then became a correspondent in Rome. He also reported from India, Sri Lanka, Japan, South Korea, Egypt, Turkey and elsewhere. To write fiction, he left the AP and moved to Paris, supporting himself as an editor at the International Herald Tribune. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker, among other publications. Today, he is a contributing columnist at The Globe & Mail. He lives in London.  For more info on The Imposters click HERE