Annihilation

The most interesting novelist of our times * Evening Standard * 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 * The Daily Telegraph * Surely the most important novelist to have been publishing not only in France but in all of Europe over the past three decades. – David Sexton, The Sunday Times An extended meditation on human frailty and the lack of spirituality in the Western world … Houellebecq displays compassion and empathy, and a belief in the redemptive power of love. * New Statesman * 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. * The Times Literary Supplement *

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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