An 'Instagram-perfect' existence?
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico and Sophie Hughes is one of the novels shortlisted for this year's International Booker Prize for fiction translated into English. It's the story of Tom and Anna, millennial digital nomads living in Berlin, who start to feel that their existence is shallower than it should be. Can they manage to inject meaning into their lives?
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