Michel Houellebecq

• Feb-2001
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An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novelâ€"part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.Bruno and Michel are half-brothers aban...

• Mar-2001
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Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though ...

• Jul-2003
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Michel is a civil-servant, an account manager at the Ministry of Culture. He is single, and likes his pleasures pre-packaged: game shows, TV movies, pornography and instant mash. When his father is murdered and he comes into some money, Michel takes ...

• Jun-2004
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Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim countries, the travel agent suggests an isl...

• Jun-2006
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A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus -- a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant...

• May-2011
• / Literary
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Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably ...

• Jan-2012
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The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time now delivers his magnum opus -- about art and money, love and friendship and death, fathers and sons. The Map and the Territory is the story of an artist, Jed Martin, and his famil...

• Oct-2015
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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nine...

• Nov-2019
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Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Deeply depressed by his romantic and professiona...

• Oct-2024
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A stunning political thriller from the author of Serotonin and Submission about faith and family, love and mortality, social upheaval and political controversy.In Michel Houellebecq's Annihilation, it is 2027 and France is in a state of economic decl...