Annihilation
Houellebecq, Michel2024
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In Michel Houellebecq's Annihilation, it is 2027 and 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. A video posted on the internet depicts the guillotining of Finance Minister Bruno Juge. As an adviser to 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 French counterterrorism agency. Paul's personal life is as troubled and as atomized as that of the nation: his marriage has become strained, while his ties with his siblings are distant. But when Édouard suffers a stroke, Paul has an opportunity to repair his relationship with them, as they determine to free their father from the medical centre where he is wasting away.
Main title:
Annihilation / by Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
Author:
Houellebecq, MichelWhiteside, Shaun, translator
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2024.
Collation:
527 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
In English, translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781035026401 (paperback)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
502995
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