Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq Hardcover Book

Description: Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq, Shaun Whiteside "A stunning political thriller from the author of Serotonin and Submission about faith and family, love and mortality, social upheaval and political controversy"-- FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Michel Houellebecqs international bestseller-- a thrilling, ambitious, and unexpectedly tender chronicle of modern existence. It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. As the country plunges into a contentious presidential race, the government falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks in which videos of brutal decapitations and skillfully crafted deepfakes proliferate on the web. Paul Raisons own troubles are bound up with those of the country. He is an adviser to the finance minister; his wife, Prudence, is a Treasury official; and his father, Édouard, now retired, spent his career in the security services. Paul, badly overworked, is facing the threat of separation from his wife. When his father suddenly suffers a stroke, Paul must depart Paris for his provincial hometown, where he and his siblings now have the opportunity to repair their strained relationships with Édouard as they determine to free him from the decrepit public nursing home where he is wasting away. Michel Houellebecqs Annihilation reveals a new dimension of his oeuvre, adding compassion and tenderness to the irony and cutting insight that brought him international fame. Here, we see Frances most celebrated novelist taking stock of his country on the eve of great change--asking how, and whether, a society and its people can change course. Author Biography Michel Houellebecq is a novelist, a poet, and an 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. Shaun Whiteside is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many novels, including Manituana and Altai by Wu Ming, The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink, and Magdalene the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger, which won him the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation in 1997. Review "I cant think of a contemporary novelist anywhere whose work reflects the mood of the times so acutely [Houellebecq] seems to anticipate events; or any other writer who is so willing to show us the world as he sees it, not as wed like it to be." --Melanie McDonagh, The Evening Standard "A compassionate, deeply affecting novel about love and death and the way we treat the dying . . . A novel of massive ambition, worthy of Balzac, deeply embedded in the reality of France, telling truths that come, in the end, straight from Pascal."--David Sexton, The Spectator "Annihilation may present itself as a political thriller, but at its heart is a far more intimate catastrophe . . . In the end, Annihilation leans neither towards hope nor despair, but towards a transcendent serenity--an eerie peace that arises, as everything arises in this novel, in the space to which warring forces give shape." --Sam Byers, The Guardian "I like to think Houellebecq is an optimist deep down, and this new novel supports my gut feeling . . . but theres still plenty of his trademark black-humored venom . . . The final part of the book is a deeply poignant, theistically suggestive masterpiece."--Oskar Osprey, Artforum "[Houellebecq] has become an undisputed literary titan . . . [In Annihilation] were given Houellebecq at his most tender-hearted and vulnerable . . . Politics, the conspiracy at the heart of the book, all the rest of it--everything fades away. And all thats left, all that matters, is embracing the one you love."--Camilla Grudova, The Telegraph Details ISBN0374608423 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Year 2024 Translator Shaun Whiteside ISBN-13 9780374608422 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-10-08 Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux Audience General Pages 544 DEWEY 843.914 Author Shaun Whiteside Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161633172;

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