Perfection Ordnance Survey state and nonstate alike –

state and nonstate alike – struggle to outmanoeuvre one another in this new Great Game of scientific discovery

The city was on its knees with widespread suffering and squalor

scattered across two continents and three different countries

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and their domestic lives beyond the battlefield

Perfection Ordnance Survey state and nonstate alike –With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak.