Finding this book came through from DNAMAG email newsletter, who described: “that there is something so magnificent about Perfection that either it’s because I can relate to it, or that I dread it.”
A coming of later age story of two people navigating real and perceived levels of happiness, desperately hoping to stay ahead of the multicultural remote-living, digital-native wave.
With a cover image by Wolfgang Tilmams that looks as though it could have been taken by main characters Anna and Tom themselves. Who are Anna and Tom? Two Southern European expats living in Berlin, working remotely from home and cafes, consuming and creating perfectly designed digital layouts for themselves and their clients.
A quick read at only 125 pages, translated from Italian, the book reads solely from the narrator, making it easy to imagine the adaptation to film by a Woody Allen type.
Christina Ann Rinaldi 