About the author
Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian novelist, essayist, and translator. His work examines culture, technology, class, property, and the European lives organised around creative labour and international mobility.
Perfection follows an expatriate couple in Berlin and has been compared formally with Georges Perec’s Things. Sophie Hughes translated the novel into English.
Where to start
Start with Perfection for Latronico’s concise social portrait of digital creative life and gentrifying Berlin.