Annie the Book reviewed Imposters by Tom Rachman
The Imposters, by Tom Rachman
4 stars
As I read The Imposters, the brilliant new novel by Tom Rachman, I couldn’t help but think of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night. In Mother Night, the protagonist did terrible things while posing as a Nazi, arguing ever afterward that he was only pretending in order to do good things. The novel has its flaws but it sticks in my memory as a story about how what we pretend to be can effectively become who we are. The Imposters is also a novel about what we pretend to be. Unlike Mother Night, however, Rachman takes us underneath the veneer of those pretensions to reveal quivering fear and insecurity. It is one of the most unsettling works of literary psychology I’ve ever read...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for …
As I read The Imposters, the brilliant new novel by Tom Rachman, I couldn’t help but think of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night. In Mother Night, the protagonist did terrible things while posing as a Nazi, arguing ever afterward that he was only pretending in order to do good things. The novel has its flaws but it sticks in my memory as a story about how what we pretend to be can effectively become who we are. The Imposters is also a novel about what we pretend to be. Unlike Mother Night, however, Rachman takes us underneath the veneer of those pretensions to reveal quivering fear and insecurity. It is one of the most unsettling works of literary psychology I’ve ever read...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.