EAN: 9781035026401

HOUELLEBECQ MICHEL ANNIHILATION

It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. Unemployment  rural
poverty and income inequality have reached unprecedented levels.  As the country plunges into a
closely-fought presidential campaign  the French state falls victim to a series of mysterious
and unsettling cyberattacks. The sophisticated nature of the attacks leaves the best computer
scientists of the DGSI - the French counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence agency -
scrambling for answers. A video posted on the internet depicts the guillotining of Finance
Minister Bruno Juge. The atmosphere surrounding the elections  already tense  heightens
further...  As an adviser to and confidant of Minister Juge  Paul Raison is close to the heart
of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official  while his father Édouard  now retired
has spent his career working for the DGSI. And the personal life of Raison fils is as troubled
and as atomised as that of the nation - his marriage has become strained  while his ties with
his siblings are distant.  But when Édouard has a stroke  his children - Cécile  a fervent
Catholic  Aurélien  a sensitive artist  and Paul  the government bureaucrat - have an
opportunity to repair their relationships  as they determine to free their father  who is in a
coma  from the medical centre where he is wasting away. And then Paul himself is struck down by
illness...  Enfant terrible and provocateur  Michel Houellebecq's latest novel reveals both a
new level of ambition and new sides to his writing  as he addresses faith and family  love and
mortality  and adds compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage  disgust and irony that
have powered his earlier novels - and he himself - to international fame.

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