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
• / Literary
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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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Michel Houellebecq’s international bestseller -- a thrilling, ambitious, and unexpectedly tender chronicle of modern existence.It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.As the country plunges into a contentious president...