book review: Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico translated by Sophie Hughes
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico translated by Sophie Hughes Overview: Anna and Tom moved to Berlin to work their remote design jobs acquired through their childhoods spent navigating the burgeoning internet. They have a relatively perfect life, a nice apartment, a serviceable group of friends. But there's something still dull about their lives, and all the fellow expats in their lives eventually move on. So they start to move around too, chasing different, more than they have. The pursuit of perfection will ultimately rip up their lives. Overall: 4 I don't feel like I can write a typical review for this bite-sized novel. It's only 125 pages with a scaled back type-set and font on the bigger side. I easily read it in a day without trying all that hard. It was the perfect book to get back into reading after a long gap, but the opening did almost make me put it down. The first prelude spends pages describing the apartment in a great degree of detail, and I had to flip a few...