Nevertheless, she struggles in her personal life, desperate to find a romantic partner. Hardy Benjamin, a very bright business journalist, has been successful in her career despite her young age, with a series of incisive articles about corporate finance. His newfound energy and amorality eventually get him promoted to culture editor. Finding himself suddenly passionate about writing once more, Arthur begins a manipulative and ambitious campaign inside the newspaper. One day, his daughter dies in a horrible accident, destroying Arthur’s equanimity and shaking his sense of self. Although he is the son of a well-known writer, Arthur is content to do as little as humanly possible. Lloyd tells Jerome what’s happened, and then moves in with him because he can no longer afford his own place.Īrthur Gopal is the paper’s obituaries editor. Lloyd writes the story anyway, but fact-checking reveals that Jerome has not only made the whole thing up, but he hasn’t even worked in the foreign ministry for a while. Jerome tells his father some government secrets, asking Lloyd not to write about them. Lloyd decides to ask his son Jerome for a story about French involvement in the situation in Gaza – Jerome works for the foreign ministry in France and so could be a useful source. Lately, his work has been dropping in quality, and his articles are no longer published daily.
Lloyd Burko, a journalist in his seventies, is the paper’s Paris correspondent. Its circulation is falling, and because it has no web presence, it isn’t attracting new subscribers.
Although it was once prestigious, the paper is now on the verge of bankruptcy since it loses money each year. Each chapter ends with a piece of the never-named newspaper’s fifty-year history. Although The Imperfectionists is ostensibly one long prose piece, it is composed of smaller stories about each of the employees – their personal and professional lives, their difficulties and successes, and the sometimes-shocking events that disrupt their routines. Drawing on Rachman’s own experiences living an expatriate lifestyle as an AP correspondent in Rome and as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris, the book revolves around the mundane monotony of office work, the quirks of the newspaper world, and the ways in which a variety of individuals work within or outside of this system.
The Imperfectionists (2010), the first novel from Canadian author Tom Rachman, chronicles the lives of the journalists, editors, and publishers who work at an international newspaper written in English but headquartered in Rome.
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