Vincenzo Latronico: Perfection

His fourth novel – and first to be translated into English - Perfection (tr. Sophie Hughes) is a powerfully observant and slyly devastating satire about a Berlin-dwelling, dissatisfied millennial couple that quickly became one of the most acclaimed and talked-about novels of the year: hailed as “generation-defining” by critics and shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize.

He joins us for his only Aotearoa New Zealand appearance to discuss his novel that The New Yorker reviewer read in “a single hypnotized sitting”; Lauren Groff called “a jewel of a novel: precisely cut, intricately faceted, prismatically dazzling” and The Sunday Times Chief Literary critic hailed as: “one of the most brilliantly controlled works of social realism I’ve read in a while.”