# The Imposters - Hardcover

by **Tom Rachman** (Author)

**From the author of the _New York Times_ bestseller _The Imperfectionists_, the story of a chameleonic writer desperate to finish her final book, and the indelible characters from her own life who intrude on those efforts with increasingly unpredictable results.**

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, Dora's 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 Dora's 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 style--at 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.

"When a Tom Rachman novel lands in the bookstores, I stop living and breathing to devour it. It's 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

### Author Biography

**Tom Rachman** is the author of three novels: _The Italian Teacher, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers_, and the _New York Times_ bestseller _The Imperfectionists_. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Born in London and raised in Vancouver, Rachman worked at the _Associated Press_ as a foreign-news editor in Manhattan and Rome before becoming a novelist. His writing has appeared in the _New York Times_, _The _Atlantic__, the _Washington Post_, the _Wall Street Journal_, _The New Yorker_, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in London.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.2 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** June 27, 2023

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