![]() ![]() Though he did include lots of plot synopsis! And made mention that there is a character named Pickle! And, by the sheer force of his enthusiasm, led us to believe this may be a book we would like to read!Ĭurious what even one sentence of this “alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching … Rubik’s Cube” of a novel might be, we decided to take a look at the book itself. ![]() According to reviewer Christopher Buckley, the book “is so good I had to read it twice simply to figure out how he pulled it off.” Coincidentally, we had to read Buckley’s 1,000 word paean twice before realizing “Sadism Hussein” is the only quote from the actual book Buckley included in his review. Though this does not necessarily predict future sales, it does ensure that your book will be on the popular-fiction table at Barnes & Noble for the foreseeable future. Congratulations, Tom Rachman! Over the weekend you won the debut novelist sweepstakes by having your first novel, The Imperfectionists, a multi-threaded narrative about an English-language newspaper in Rome, raved about on the cover of The New York Times Book Review. ![]()
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