Perfection

Anna and Tom, an expat couple in Berlin, seem to have built the perfect life. Young, creative, and proudly freelance, they transform taste into a career and their lifestyle into a brand. For a time, it feels effortless—work and love aligned, the city itself an extension of their dream.

But slowly, the gloss fades. Friends drift away, projects lose their spark, the city grows stagnant. Even their relationship begins to fray, as the ideals they once clung to collapse into uneasy self-awareness.

Perfection—Vincenzo Latronico’s first novel translated into English—is a razor-sharp portrait of millennial ambition and the disillusionments that quietly gather in its wake. It is the story of two people who find themselves trapped inside the very dream they once longed for, wondering if they were naïve, misguided, or simply born into the wrong time.

A 2025 International Booker Prize Longlist Nominee.