LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age 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
Serotonin
β Scribed by Michel Houellebecq
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Edition
- First American edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0374721688
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β¦ Synopsis
Michel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a scathing, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, politically incorrect novel about the current state of Europe, Western civilization, and mankind in general.
Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." His young girlfriend hates him, his career is pretty much over, and he has to keep himself highly medicated to cope with day-to-day city life.
Struggling with "sex, male angst, solitude, consumerism, globalisation, urban planning, and more sex" (The Economist), Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses, and where, too, he had once been in love, and even--it now seems--happy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and European agricultural policies, and local farmers longing, like Labrouste himself,...
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