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The most interesting novelist of our times Evening Standard
The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades The Sunday Times
We have no one to match Houellebecq. The Daily Telegraph
It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.
As the country plunges into a closely-fought presidential campaign, the French state falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. The sophisticated nature of the attacks leaves the best computer scientists at the DGSI the French counter-terrorism agency scrambling for answers.
An advisor to the countrys Finance Minister, Paul Raison is close to the heart of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official, while his father douard, now retired, has spent his career working for the DGSI. When douard has a stroke, his children have an opportunity to repair their strained relationships, as they determine to free their father from the medical centre where he is wasting away.
Michel Houellebecqs Annihilation reveals new sides to his writing, adding compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage, disgust and irony that have powered both him and his earlier works to international fame.
Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside
Annihilation was a #1 Livres Hebdo bestseller in France w/c 10/01/2022, and a #1 Spiegel bestseller in Germany w/c 24/01/2022
Author Information
Michel Houellebecq is a novelist, poet and essayist, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. Acclaimed both in his native France and worldwide, his novels include Atomised, Platform, The Map and the Territory and Submission.
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