Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

Format
Paperback
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Country
United States
Published
18 March 2025
Pages
136
ISBN
9781681378725

Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.

"One of Europe's most talented young writers, Latronico has written the great Berlin novel we've all been waiting for." -Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker staff journalist

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukoelln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They have a passion for food, progressive politics, sexual experimentation, and Berlin's twenty-four-hour party scene. Their ideal existence is also that of an entire generation, lived out on Instagram, but outside the images they create for themselves, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Their work as graphic designers becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. An attempt at political activism during the refugee crisis proves fruitless. And in that picture-perfect life Anna and Tom feel increasingly trapped, yearning for an authenticity and a sense of purpose that seem perennially just out of their grasp. With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak.

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