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 e
Serotonin
β Scribed by Michel Houellebecq
- Publisher
- Cornerstone Digital
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781473570535
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β¦ Synopsis
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
THE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR
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'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times
Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is dying of sadness. His young girlfriend hates him and his career as an engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture is pretty much over. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Recently released for public consumption, Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant which works by altering the brain's release of serotonin.
Armed with this new drug, Labrouste decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside where he used to work promoting regional cheeses, and where he had once been in love. But instead of happiness, he finds a rural community...
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