Reviews round-up
Perfection
by Vincenzo Latronico
5 of 6 critics positive
9 reviews: 1 rave, 4 positives, 1 pan; 3 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration”
“Perfection” Is the Perfect Novel for an Age of Aimless Aspiration
“finely itemises his generation’s quirks and quiddities”
What was the millennial?
“A great recent novel shows what happens to those people”
Where is Berlin at now?
“biting and insightful English-language debut”
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
“deliciously pessimistic chronicle of gentrifying Berlin”
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review – an object lesson in hollow hipsterism
“will only wow the easily impressed”
Want to satirise millennials? You need to try harder than this
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review: a self-skewering portrait of identikit hipsters
A Satire of the Expat’s Berlin: Utopian, Urbane, Unstable (Published 2025)
‘Perfection’ puts a cosmopolitan generation under the microscope
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