Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media. But beyond the images, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Work becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. Frustrated that their progressive politics amount to little more in practice than boycotting Uber, tipping in cash, or never eating tuna, Anna and Tom make a fruitless attempt at political activism. Feeling increasingly trapped in their picture-perfect life, the couple takes ever more radical steps in the pursuit of an authenticity and a sense of purpose perennially beyond their grasp. Superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection is a taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, scathing and brilliantly affecting.
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Perfection
I found this book intensely boring to read but read it I did. This is an attempt at describing the life of two young people who lack any kind of engagement in understanding the reality of of neo liberal capitalism and the impact of what they are pursuing , a lack of commitment and so called freedom,…
I found this book intensely boring to read but read it I did. This is an attempt at describing the life of two young people who lack any kind of engagement in understanding the reality of of neo liberal capitalism and the impact of what they are pursuing , a lack of commitment and so called freedom, There is no description or emotional warmth to these characters which engage the reader, me but maybe that’s the intention of the author in writing an extremely sterile novel which is deeply depressing and offers no insight as to the depth of alienation inherent in this way of life.
- Authors:
- Latronico, Vincenzo
- Year Published:
- 2025
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781804271049
- Number of Pages:
- 120
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publisher:
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Publication Date:
- 13/02/2025
- SKU:
- 9781804271049