Perfection

‘Sharp and revelatory. Latronico demonstrates that, despite their vanity, his characters Anna and Tom are not so different from others whose lives are conditioned by the consumer economy—they want what others want: a life that is legible to them yet not prescribed. Latronico is a brilliant and fearless writer. I recommend this novel to every reader I meet.’ * Ellena Savage, author of Blueberries * ‘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 * ‘Perfection masterfully updates Georges Perec’s masterpiece Les Choses.’ * Rivista Studio *