Serotonin

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel KushnerMichel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times. . . Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' Evening Standard

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Michel Houellebecq

scriitor francez · n. 1956

Michel Houellebecq ; n. 26 februarie 1956, Saint-Pierre, Réunion, Franța) este un scriitor francez contemporan. Romanul său de debut este Extinderea domeniului luptei (1994), iar ulterior scriitorul a publicat multe alte romane.