The Elementary Particles (Michel Houellebecq)

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The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq

The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq

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...

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Michel Houellebecq

Recommended by Peter, City Lights Books In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels...