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A number one bestseller in France, Germany and Italy, the new novel by the acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission and arguably his masterpiece. ‘Surely the most important novelist to have been publishing not only in France but in all of Europe over the past three decades.’ The Sunday Times
The most interesting novelist of our times
Michel Houellebecq’s new book proves he is one of the world’s greatest novelists . . . He writes superbly . . . In England . . . we have no one, male or female, to match Houellebecq
Surely the most important novelist to have been publishing not only in France but in all of Europe over the past three decades.
It is hard to think of any writer in the English-speaking world equivalent to the cultural and political phenomenon that is the French novelist and provocateur Michel Houellebecq.
Since the start of his literary career, Michel Houellebecq has been viewed in France as a prodigy whom his readers and critics both love hating and hate loving. As well as a bestselling novelist, he has become a social phenomenon: a rock star, a freak, a visionary genius, a political agitator, even, for some, a prophet.
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.