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100 1 a| Latronico, Vincenzo,e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrKWfpttmqXKtyD6YM3wC=| ^A1481869;

240 10 a| Perfezioni.l| English=| ^A1481424;

245 10 a| Perfection /c| by Vincenzo Latronico ; translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes.;

264 1 a| New York, NY :b| The New York Review of Books,c| [2025];

300 a| 125 pages ;c| 22 cm.;

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520 a| "Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They have a passion for food, progressive politics, sexual experimentation, and Berlin's twenty-four-hour party scene. Their ideal existence is also that of an entire generation, lived out on Instagram, but outside the images they create for themselves, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Their work as graphic designers becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. An attempt at political activism during the refugee crisis proves fruitless. And in that picture-perfect life Anna and Tom feel increasingly trapped, yearning for an authenticity and a sense of purpose that seem perennially just out of their grasp. With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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650 0 a| Authenticity (Philosophy)v| Fiction.=| ^A126662;

651 0 a| Berlin (Germany)v| Fiction.=| ^A695141;

650 6 a| Génération Internetv| Romans, nouvelles, etc.;

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700 1 a| Hughes, Sophieq| (Sophie Elizabeth),d| 1986-e| translator.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdh64gWjrkMJgCCH4KmVC=| ^A1482052;

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Perfection / by Vincenzo Latronico ; translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes.

Author/creator	Latronico, Vincenzo author.
Other author	Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- translator.
Format	Book
Publication	New York, NY : The New York Review of Books, [2025]
Description	125 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects	Generation Y--Fiction. Married people--Fiction. Authenticity (Philosophy)--Fiction. Génération Internet--Romans, nouvelles, etc. Couples mariés--Romans, nouvelles, etc. Authenticité (Philosophie)--Romans, nouvelles, etc. Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.

Uniform title	Perfezioni. English
Series	New York Review Books classics New York Review Books classics. ^A527571
Abstract	"Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They have a passion for food, progressive politics, sexual experimentation, and Berlin's twenty-four-hour party scene. Their ideal existence is also that of an entire generation, lived out on Instagram, but outside the images they create for themselves, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Their work as graphic designers becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. An attempt at political activism during the refugee crisis proves fruitless. And in that picture-perfect life Anna and Tom feel increasingly trapped, yearning for an authenticity and a sense of purpose that seem perennially just out of their grasp. With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak"-- Provided by publisher.
Issued in other form	Online version: Latronico, Vincenzo. Perfection New York : New York Review Books, 2025 9781681378732
Genre/form	Novels.
Genre/form	Romans.
LCCN	2024048664
ISBN	9781681378725 paperback
ISBN	1681378728 paperback
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book

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