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HOUELLEBECQ MICHEL ANNIHILATION

A Daily Express Best Book of the Year  '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  'The most important novelist to have
been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades' - The Sunday Times  It is 2027.
France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.  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 at the DGSI - the French counter-terrorism agency - scrambling for answers.  An
advisor to the country's Finance Minister  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. When Édouard has a stroke  his children have an opportunity to
repair their strained relationships  as they determine to free their father from the medical
centre where he is wasting away.  Michel Houellebecq's Annihilation reveals new sides to his
writing  adding compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage and irony that have powered
both him and his earlier works to international fame.  'We have no one to match Houellebecq.' -
The Daily Telegraph  Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside  Annihilation was a #1
Livres Hebdo bestseller in France w c 10 01 2022  and a #1 Spiegel bestseller in Germany w c 24
01 2022

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