Perfection

Resumen del libro

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

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Vincenzo Latronico x{0026}lt;/strong (Roma, 1984) es autor de las novelas x{0026}lt;em Ginnastica e rivoluzione x{0026}lt;/em (Premio Giuseppe Berto Opera Prima), x{0026}lt;em La cospirazione delle colombe x{0026}lt;/em (Premio Bergamo y Premio Napoli), x{0026}lt;em La mentalità dellx{0026} x02019;alveare x{0026}lt;/em y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Las perfeccionesx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;em , x{0026}lt;/em con la que ganó el Premio Mondello y que está en proceso de traducción en diecisiete países. Es además autor, con Armin Linke, del ensayo x{0026}lt;em Narciso nelle colonie, x{0026}lt;/em traductor literario, colaborador de x{0026}lt;em Il Post x{0026}lt;/em y profesor en la Scuola Holden. Vive en Berlín.x{0026}lt;/p