A Daily Express Best Book of the YearAn 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. &ndash New StatesmanThe most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades &ndash The Sunday TimesIt is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.As the country plunges into a closelyfought 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 &ndash the French counterterrorism agency &ndash scrambling for answers.An advisor to the country&rsquos Finance Minister, Paul Raison is close to the heart of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official, while his father douard, now retired, has spent his career working for the DGSI. When douard 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&rsquos 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. &ndash The Daily TelegraphTranslated from the French by Shaun WhitesideAnnihilation was a #1...

Binding: Hardback;640 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FA; Weight: 989.54 g; Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 38

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