The New York Times Book Review staff have announced their selection of this year's 100 standout books, fiction and nonfiction. Among their picks of literary fiction is Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection, published by New York Review Books in March of this year.
Anna and Tom, the “creative professionals” at the center of Latronico’s trenchant novel, move to a flat in Berlin’s hippest neighborhood sometime during Angela Merkel’s second term, when the city became the de facto capital of Europe. As a portrait of the cool kids who flocked to Berlin in that period, the book — beautifully translated by Sophie Hughes — amounts to a biting and incisive satire of the expat scene.
— New York Times Book Review, 100 Notable Books of 2025
Perfection was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature earlier this year.