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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681378728
ISBN-13
9781681378725
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25068544882
Product Key Features
Original Language
Italian
Book Title
Perfection
Number of Pages
136 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Satire
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.7 in
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Reviews
"Vincenzo Latronico is a writer who sees clearly and conveys it beautifully. In Perfection , he paints a stark picture of the conditions that have created a generation's "identical struggle for a different life": globalization, homogenization, the internet. Though on one level the novel is (pitch-perfectly) "about" Berlin and the "creative professional" expatriates who have sought a different life in, and inevitably colonized, the city, the story of Anna and Tom will be uncomfortably familiar to anyone who has tried to resist the flattening effects of whatever life is now. I can't recommend it highly enough." -- Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts "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 "An important novel, innovative in its own way." -- Claudia Durastanti, author of Strangers I Know "Perfection is a jewel of a novel: precisely cut, intricately faceted, prismatically dazzling at its heart. Vicenzo Latronico is the finest of writers.'-- Lauren Groff "A new master of Italian literature." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung One need not look back a century for compelling depictions of Berlin. ...Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection, [is] notable for [its] deromanticized renderings of the city. -- The Baffler "This book gives startling form to the question of how to live a meaningful life; to the illusion that appearance is beauty; to the restlessness of contemporary society. I read it in a breath and I was captivated."-- Aysegül Savas "Perfection is a generation-defining piece of literature, one that spares us nothing. To read it is to look in a mirror and finally, for the first time, truly see yourself and the culture you've helped create: the one that lurks behind the filters, algorithms and curated ephemera of selfhood that make up our public lives. Read it and tremble." -- Madeleine Watts "The world of this horrifying novel has been built piece by perfect piece - honey-colored floorboards, a monstera's perforate leaves, glossy white tiles, a breakfast of assorted seeds, a game of Carcassonne - the method of its construction likewise perfect, a perfection of prose that ends by releasing, miraculously, the very thing perfection is made to prohibit, the heavy stink of mortality.'" -- Kathryn Davis "I recognize Anna and Tom in Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection because I am them. Never has a novel so incisively captured what it feels like to participate in the globalized culture of the Internet era: to consume it; to be overwhelmed by it; to try, futilely, to make it. The repeating symbols of homogenized good taste - potted house plants, reclaimed-wood furniture, post-industrial clubs - haunt the characters as their own poignant hopes to be original. I felt attacked, as they say online. Perfection is satire in the way that adult life itself is a comedy. By its end, the novel will cure you of any dream for authenticity." -- Kyle Chayka, "Vincenzo Latronico is a writer who sees clearly and conveys it beautifully. In Perfection , he paints a stark picture of the conditions that have created a generation's "identical struggle for a different life": globalization, homogenization, the internet. Though on one level the novel is (pitch-perfectly) "about" Berlin and the "creative professional" expatriates who have sought a different life in, and inevitably colonized, the city, the story of Anna and Tom will be uncomfortably familiar to anyone who has tried to resist the flattening effects of whatever life is now. I can't recommend it highly enough." -- Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts "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 "An important novel, innovative in its own way." -- Claudia Durastanti, author of Strangers I Know "A new master of Italian literature." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung '" erfection masterfully updates Georges Perec's masterpiece Les Choses ." -- Rivista Studio, "Vincenzo Latronico is a writer who sees clearly and conveys it beautifully. In Perfection , he paints a stark picture of the conditions that have created a generation's "identical struggle for a different life": globalization, homogenization, the internet. Though on one level the novel is (pitch-perfectly) "about" Berlin and the "creative professional" expatriates who have sought a different life in, and inevitably colonized, the city, the story of Anna and Tom will be uncomfortably familiar to anyone who has tried to resist the flattening effects of whatever life is now. I can't recommend it highly enough." -- Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts "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 "An important novel, innovative in its own way." -- Claudia Durastanti, author of Strangers I Know "Perfection is a jewel of a novel: precisely cut, intricately faceted, prismatically dazzling at its heart. Vicenzo Latronico is the finest of writers.'-- Lauren Groff "A new master of Italian literature." -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung '" erfection masterfully updates Georges Perec's masterpiece Les Choses ." -- Rivista Studio "This book gives startling form to the question of how to live a meaningful life; to the illusion that appearance is beauty; to the restlessness of contemporary society. I read it in a breath and I was captivated."-- Aysegül Savas "Perfection is a generation-defining piece of literature, one that spares us nothing. To read it is to look in a mirror and finally, for the first time, truly see yourself and the culture you've helped create: the one that lurks behind the filters, algorithms and curated ephemera of selfhood that make up our public lives. Read it and tremble." -- Madeleine Watts "The world of this horrifying novel has been built piece by perfect piece - honey-colored floorboards, a monstera's perforate leaves, glossy white tiles, a breakfast of assorted seeds, a game of Carcassonne - the method of its construction likewise perfect, a perfection of prose that ends by releasing, miraculously, the very thing perfection is made to prohibit, the heavy stink of mortality.'" -- Kathryn Davis "I recognize Anna and Tom in Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection because I am them. Never has a novel so incisively captured what it feels like to participate in the globalized culture of the Internet era: to consume it; to be overwhelmed by it; to try, futilely, to make it. The repeating symbols of homogenized good taste - potted house plants, reclaimed-wood furniture, post-industrial clubs - haunt the characters as their own poignant hopes to be original. I felt attacked, as they say online. Perfection is satire in the way that adult life itself is a comedy. By its end, the novel will cure you of any dream for authenticity." -- Kyle Chayka
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
853.92
Synopsis
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 --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?
LC Classification Number
PQ4912.A87P4713 2025
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