The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s a product of passion and a multi-millionaire's
fancy. Over fifty years its eccentricities earned a place in readers' hearts around the globe.
But now circulation is down the paper lacks a website and the future looks bleak. Still
those involved in the publication seem to barely notice. The obituary writer is too busy
avoiding work. The editor-in-chief is pondering sleeping with an old flame. The obsessive
reader is intent on finishing every old edition leaving her trapped in the past. And the
dog-crazy publisher seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent
basset hound Schopenhauer. The Imperfectionists interweaves the stories of eleven unusual and
endearing characters who depend on the paper. Often at odds they are united when the focus of
their lives begins to fall apart. Funny and moving the novel is about endings - the end of
life the end of sexual desire the end of the era of newspapers - and about what might rise
afterward.
