num_pages: 352
description: Dora Frenhofer a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist knows her mind is going. She is determined however to finish her final book and reverse her fortunes before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic she creates and is in turn created by the fascinating real characters from her own life. Like a twenty-first-century Scheherazade Dora spins stories to ward off her end. From New Delhi to New York Copenhagen to Los Angeles Australia to Syria to Paris Doras chapters trot the globe inhabiting the perspectives of her missing brother her estranged daughter her erstwhile lover and her last remaining friend among others in her orbit. As her own life comes into ever sharper focus so do the signal events that have made her who she is leaving us in Doras thrall until with an unforeseen twist she snaps the final piece of the puzzle into place.The Imposters is Tom Rachman at his inimitable best. With his trademark styleat once deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate (The Washington Post)he has delivered a novel whose formal ingenuity and flamboyant technique are matched only by its humanity and generosity.From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Imperfectionists the story of a chameleonic writer and the indelible characters in her orbit in a novel about love the power of art and what we leave behind When a Tom Rachman novel lands in the bookstores I stop living and breathing to devour it. Its hard to think of anyone who has a better grasp on the world we live in (and I mean like the entire planet) and can write about it with such entertainment and panache.Gary Shteyngart
language: English
title: The Imposters
publisher: Little, Brown and Company