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Perfection

Shortlisted For The International Booker Prize 2025

by Vincenzo Latronico
language: english
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, February of 2025 ‧
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Shortlisted For The International Booker Prize 2025

A taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence – scathing and affecting in equal measure.

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin – in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They have a passion for food, progressive politics, sexual experimentation and Berlin’s 24-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 is beautifully written and brilliantly scathing.

Perfection

Shortlisted For The International Booker Prize 2025

by Vincenzo Latronico

Property Description
ISBN: 9781804271049
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Release Date: February of 2025
Language: English
Dimensions: 126 x 198 x 9 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 120
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Romance
EAN: 9781804271049

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vincenzo Latronico

Vincenzo Latronico nasceu em Roma, em 1984, e vive atualmente em Berlim. É autor de quatro premiados romances: Ginnastica e rivoluzione (2008), prémio Giuseppe Berto; La cospirazione delle colombe (2011), prémio Nápoles e prémio Bergamo; La mentalità dell’alveare (2013) e As Perfeições (2022), finalista do prémio Strega e vencedor do prémio internacional Mondello. Está traduzido em vinte e dois países.

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