Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Vincenzo Latronico’s ‘Perfection’ would be just as valuable without lecturing. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.
6/10
Perfection: 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 24-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.
Thanks for watching, and remember: I have no idea why the audio is weird in this video, must be radioactive or something.
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Vincenzo Latronico’s ‘Perfection’ would be just as valuable without lecturing. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.
6/10
Perfection: 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 24-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.
Thanks for watching, and remember: I have no idea why the audio is weird in this video, must be radioactive or something.
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/61199102
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/TheDiscoKing
Instagram: instagram.com/funkydaddydisco
#bookerprize2025 #bookerprize #internationalbookerprize #booktube #booktuber #bookreview
