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Perfection

Yazan: Vincenzo Latronico, Sophie Hughes -translator
Seslendiren: Sophie Roberts
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A 2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Nominee

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 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?

©2022 Vincenzo Latronico; Translation copyright 2025 by Sophie Hughes (P)2025 Tantor Media
City Life Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Urban World Literature
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Not what I would usually listen to, but an interesting look into fulfilment, curated life and the timelessness of an era.

Chasing fulfilment

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Perfectly observed tale of the chase for the perfect instagram life and how it eats itself! The clichéd living made me chuckle. I know too many digi nomads like them.

Prediction

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Good translation and the narrator has exactly the right ironic tone. Recommend to those who like writing in translation

A curated life

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Short but excellent. Like a detailed daydream about the owners of that Airbnb place you rented and loved – authentic, interesting designs and the clues about the people who lives there. But also a journey thru a life most people only dream about but never experience. Fantastic book without a single line of dialogue.

Perfection, as the title says

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I think this book plays on the idea of what is perfection? In terms of where you live, your job, your time and really is it attainable? This couple is searching for something that may or may not exist for them. And in the end is your idea of perfection everything you thought it would be??? Did I enjoy this book not really but I think I need a re listen

Perfection???

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