LibreBookClub - "Perfection" by Vincenzo Latronico

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📚 Welcome to Librebook's first multilingual & multicultural book club!

In our first gathering, we are discussing the novel Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (original title: Le perfezioni).

Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts and emotions about their reading experience – and, of course, any language-specific comments are more than welcome! We are a multilingual book club, after all 😉

About the book:
The novel was first published in Italian in 2022 and was shortlisted for the Italian literary prize Premio Strega in the same year, as well as for the International Booker Prize in 2025. The book has been published in over 50 countries and has received widespread public and critical praise.

"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." (Fitzcarraldo Editions)