Perfection: Vincenzo Latronico in conversation with Shon Faye

We're super excited to welcome Vincenzo Latronico for a special event discussing his bestselling novel PERFECTION with Shon Faye.

Comfortably our bestselling book of 2025, PERFECTION has resonated (sometimes uncomfortably) for many of us, and we're super grateful to Vincenzo for choosing us for an event during his short visit to the UK, and to the brilliant Shon Faye for chairing.

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene – an ideal existence shared by an entire generation and tantalizingly lived out on social media.

But beyond the images, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Work becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. Frustrated that their progressive politics amount to little more in practice than boycotting Uber, tipping in cash, or never eating tuna, Anna and Tom make a fruitless attempt at political activism. Feeling increasingly trapped in their picture-perfect life, the couple takes ever more radical steps in the pursuit of an authenticity and a sense of purpose perennially beyond their grasp.

Superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, Vincenzo Latronico’s PERFECTION is a taut, spare sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, scathing and brilliantly affecting.

Please note that sadly due to architectural limitations of the building, the venue is not accessible via wheelchair. The event will be recorded and will be available to listen to as a podcast soon after the event.