Annihilation by Houellebecq, Michel
Annihilation by Houellebecq, Michel

Annihilation

Michel Houellebecq's international bestseller-- a thrilling, ambitious, and unexpectedly tender chronicle of modern existence. It is 2027....
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Author: Michel Houellebecq
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Annihilation by Houellebecq, Michel

Annihilation

$45.67
Annihilation by Houellebecq, Michel

Annihilation

$45.67
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 presidential race, the government falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks in which videos of brutal decapitations and skillfully crafted deepfakes proliferate on the web.

Paul Raison's own troubles are bound up with those of the country. He is an adviser to the finance minister; his wife, Prudence, is a Treasury official; and his father, Édouard, now retired, spent his career in the security services. Paul, badly overworked, is facing the threat of separation from his wife. When his father suddenly suffers a stroke, Paul must depart Paris for his provincial hometown, where he and his siblings now have the opportunity to repair their strained relationships with Édouard as they determine to free him from the decrepit public nursing home where he is wasting away.

Michel Houellebecq's Annihilation reveals a new dimension of his oeuvre, adding compassion and tenderness to the irony and cutting insight that brought him international fame. Here, we see France's most celebrated novelist taking stock of his country on the eve of great change--asking how, and whether, a society and its people can change course.

Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.37w x 1.68d
ISBN: 9780374608422


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/02/2024

About the Author

Michel Houellebecq is a novelist, a poet, and an 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.

Shaun Whiteside is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many novels, including Manituana and Altai by Wu Ming, The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink, and Magdalene the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger, which won him the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation in 1997.
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