Synopsis
A Daily Express Book of the Year
'A must-read' – Evening Standard
'Houellebecq’s new book proves he is one of the world’s greatest novelists' – The Daily Telegraph
'The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades' – The Sunday Times
As France is in the midst of a closely fought presidential campaign, the government falls...
Details
21 August 2025544 pages
9781035026418Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The most interesting novelist of our timesEvening Standard
Michel Houellebecq’s new book proves he is one of the world’s greatest novelists . . . He writes superbly . . . In England . . . we have no one, male or female, to match HouellebecqThe Daily Telegraph
Surely the most important novelist to have been publishing not only in France but in all of Europe over the past three decades.David Sexton, The Sunday Times
A compassionate, deeply affecting novel about love and death and the way we treat the dying . . . worthy of Balzac . . . telling truths that come straight from Pascal. We can only hope that it is not Houellebecq’s swansong, after allThe Spectator
