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Die Unperfekten (2010)

by Tom Rachman(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3423248211 (ISBN13: 9783423248211)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

dtv

review 1: Great title! Multi-dimensional characters, interesting stories; several themes emerged. This was not a particularly uplifting book. I wish there had been more hope in the story lines, but it was dealing with imperfect humans working in the changing and weakening newspaper industry, so the tone reflected these topics. Overall, the deftness of the writing kept me reading and interested--and hoping for the best for these people.
review 2: Having worked in a newsroom, and now working at a company that copy-edits for a newspaper, this book hit the nail on the head so many times it almost stopped being funny and started smarting. From the beleaguered copy editor to the harried accounting officer to the corrections editor (one of my favourites), I found very little to... more dislike about this collection of short stories - which are, I might add, beautifully woven together with italic missives from the paper's past. From different characters' points of view - like Faulkner's As I Lay Dying - we see this newspaper in Rome from all its different angles and examine all of its facets. It's a devastating look into the foibles of the news profession, and the flaws of humans themselves. less

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