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Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq & Bernard-Henri Levy
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals' - (Houellebecq to BHL). In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. "Public Enemies" is the result. In their inimitabl ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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 begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labroust ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In a near-future France, Fran ois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalis ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
The Map And The Territory by Michel Houellebecq
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news.
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Who is it among you who deserves eternal life?' Houellebecq's dazzling new novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarote, is a thought-provoking, shocking and ultimately moving examination of the modern world. Daniel is a successful stand-up comedian who has built his reputation on ...Show more
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Who, among you, deserves eternal life? Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, ...Show more
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