# Serotonin

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- Authors: [Michel Houellebecq](https://www.bookquiver.com/michel-houellebecq)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-09-17

## Description

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 the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin. When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age. 'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner Michel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times . . . E xhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' Evening Standard

## Editions

### Serotonin

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Shaun Whiteside
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7357-058-0
- Published: 2020-09-17
- Language: en_GB

### Serotonin

- Publisher: Vintage
- Translated by: Shaun Whiteside
- ISBN: 978-15-2911-171-2
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2020-09-17
- Language: en_GB