Aug 2025 Book Club - 'Perfection' by Vincenzo Latronico

Our Book Club pick for August is the 2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist title 'Perfection' by Vincenzo Latronico (trans. Sophie Hughes)!

"Expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment. Young, cool digital creatives, they enjoy slow cooking, Danish furniture, progressive politics, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene. But they begin to feel disillusioned, bored. Work becomes repetitive. Friends move away, have children, grow up. Trapped in a lifestyle optimised for digital perfection, yearning for authenticity, they find themselves doing something they could never have predicted.'

This is also a staff pick from Fred, one of our booksellers, and he praises the book as a 'fantastic modern commentary [that] asks many questions, to which the answers remain elusive.'

Join us on THURSDAY August 14th 6pm in the Reading Room @ Berkelouw Books Leichhardt to discuss this mesmerising book. And if you haven't already, you can pick up a copy in-store now.