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Perfection
Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico
4 posts | 3 read | 10 to read
Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neuklln. 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, Perfection, translated by Sophie Hughes, is a sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, brilliantly scathing.
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AnneCecilie
Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico
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Mehso-so

I don‘t think this book was for me, I didn‘t love it as much as everyone else.

Couple is living the dream life in Berlin having gotten in before the rent increases. Actually this couple annoyed me, not realizing how lucky they are and not working more than they need.

I also felt that this book only told what happened, and there were no dialogue. Which apparently I didn‘t enjoy here.

BarbaraBB I see what you mean about the lack of dialogue. I enjoyed it nevertheless 1w
Leniverse I'm not feeling drawn to this one at all 1w
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BookishTrish
Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico
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Pickpick

Absolutely lives up to its name #ManBookerInternational

BarbaraBB I enjoyed this one too! 2w
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BarbaraBB
Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico
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Pickpick

Tom and Anna are Italian graphic designers, who moved to Berlin because it‘s the place to be. They live a life that confronts me with living in Amsterdam: all the trends, the hip & happening, the urban nomads, the gentrification, the coffee everywhere, the underground raves, the emptiness of it all. A mirror for me of who I used to be not that long ago. A great start of the #InternationalBooker longlist!

#FictionalTraveler #BigCity

Kitta Ooo stacked! 2mo
squirrelbrain Great review! ❤️ 2mo
sarahbarnes Great review! So glad to see this one is a pick for you - I have a hold on it at the library and it‘s one I‘m really looking forward to! 😀 2mo
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Cathythoughts Great review Barbara ❤️ 2mo
CarolynM Great review. Stacked🙂 2mo
youneverarrived Sounds great. Love your review. 2mo
julieclair Excellent review! Stacked. 2mo
BarbaraBB @CarolynM @youneverarrived @julieclair Thanks! I hope you‘ll like it if you get to it. 2mo
Suet624 Who you were and who you are now ….. 💕 2mo
GatheringBooks Wow! 7th book already! Awesome. This sounds like a depressing read. 💕 1mo
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charl08
Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico
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Love a Pulp reference.

#CommonPeople

Billypar 🎶 'Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh' 🎵 2mo
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