Perfection: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize - Softcover

Latronico, Vincenzo

 
9781804271049: Perfection: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1804271047 ISBN 13: 9781804271049
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2025

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Vincenzo Latronico was born in Rome in 1984 and currently lives in Milan. He is an art critic and has translated many books into Italian, by authors such as George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hanif Kureishi. Perfection is his fourth novel, the first to be translated into English. Sophie Hughes has translated Spanish and Latin American authors such as Fernanda Melchor, Alia Trabucco Zerán and Enrique Vila-Matas. She was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019 and 2020, and in 2021 she was awarded the Queen Sofía Translation Prize. She lives in Trieste.

From the Back Cover

With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak.

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 t

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Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1804271047
ISBN 13 
9781804271049
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
120

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