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Perfection

by Latronico, Vincenzo

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Book Overview A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A 2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Nominee Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for...
A New York Times Notable Book of 2025

A 2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Nominee

Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature

Winner of AIRMAIL's Inaugural Tom Wolfe Literary Prize for Fiction

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

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored. As their friends move back home or move on, so their own work and sex life--and the life of Berlin itself--begin to lose their luster. An attempt to put their politics into action fizzles in embarrassed self-doubt. Edging closer to forty, they try living as digital nomads only to discover that, wherever they go, "the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same."

Perfection--Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English--is a scathing novel about contemporary existence, a tale of two people gradually waking up to find themselves in various traps, wondering how it all came to be. Was it a lack of foresight, or were they just born too late?

Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 136 | Language: English | Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS | ISBN: 1681378728
FormatPaperback
Pages136
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1681378728
EAN9781681378725
PublisherNEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Publication Date2025-03-18
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.4 Pounds
Length8.4 Inches
Width5.7 Inches
Height0.5 Inches
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