{"product_id":"perfection-vincenzo-latronico-paperback-1","title":"Perfection -- Vincenzo Latronico, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eA scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of Europe's most talented young writers, Latronico has written the great Berlin novel we've all been waiting for.\" --Gideon Lewis-Kraus, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003estaff journalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMillennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neuk?lln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They have a passion for food, progressive politics, sexual experimentation, and Berlin's twenty-four-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, \u003ci\u003ePerfection\u003c\/i\u003e, Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vincenzo Latronico\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Rome, \u003cb\u003e Vincenzo Latronico \u003c\/b\u003estudied philosophy at the University of Milan and has since published numerous books in Italian, including \u003ci\u003eThe Conspiracy of Doves \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGymnastics and Revolution. \u003c\/i\u003eIn addition to his own writing, he has also translated the work of many writers into Italian including work by George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, and Alexander Dumas. He lives in Milan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Hughes \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator of Spanish and Italian literature. Her translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Remainder \u003c\/i\u003eby Alia Trabucco Zer?n was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2019, and her translation of Fernanda Melchor's \u003ci\u003eHurricane Season \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the same prize. Her writing and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, The Guardian, The Paris Review, The White Review, Frieze \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in the United Kingdom.","brand":"Latronico, Vincenzo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218192716004,"sku":"9781681378725","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781681378725.jpg?v=1778015785","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/perfection-vincenzo-latronico-paperback-1","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}