Conversation - Perfection

Thursday, April 30th, 6pm

We’ve been keeping this secret for months, and we still can’t quite believe we get to write this: Vincenzo Latronico, the brilliant mind behind our absolute bestseller Perfection (and 2025 International Booker Prize nominee), is coming to Salted Books.

Perfection follows Anna and Tom, a creative couple living the ultimate curated life in Berlin. Behind the right houseplants and flawless aesthetics, the novel forces us to look at the trap of digital validation, the hollowness of modern adulthood and what happens when the image you built finally cracks.

Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian novelist and translator. He writes with an unsparing honesty, laying bare the anxieties of a generation obsessed with aesthetics but starved for meaning.

On April 30th, Vincenzo will be in conversation with Portuguese writer Alex Couto to discuss the trap of digital validation, the emptiness of style and the profound alienation of modern adulthood.