by Michel Houellebecq
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system Houellebecq's first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice
Genres: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Satire, Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781847651617
161 pages
Published: 2011-05-05
Publisher: Profile Books