Serotonin Av Michel Houellebecq

<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020</b> <br><br><b>A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age</b><br><br>Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain''s release of serotonin.<br><br>When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.<br><br><b>''Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves'' Rachel Kushner </b><br><br><b>Michel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times</b><b>. . . E</b><b>xhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable'' <i>Evening Standard</i></b></p>