Book of the Week: PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes)
“An astute, discomfiting, cringe-making and often laugh-out-loud funny portrait of everyday privilege and modern aspirations, following an expat couple in Berlin. Tom and Anna are defined by their material lives, working their way through a tick-list of clichés readers will recognise in themselves and experience as a dig in the ribs. Compassionate as well as cynical, the book — in an exquisite, precise and perfectly executed translation from Italian by Sophie Hughes — holds up a mirror up to the way so many people aspire to and are let down by today’s off-the-shelf measures of success. A startlingly refreshing read.” —International Booker Prize judges’ citation