Description
In 2027 France, as economic decline and cyberattacks strain the nation to its breaking point, a finance minister’s adviser is pulled into a high-stakes crisis that mirrors the quiet collapse of his own private life. Michel Houellebecq follows Paul Raison through a world where systems fail, relationships fray, and the search for meaning becomes inseparable from questions about existence itself. With his characteristically cool, unsentimental prose, the novel blends political urgency with intimate reckoning—tracing how love, decency, and human connection can reassert themselves even amid technological and social ruin. Themes of alienation, equality, and the uneasy mathematics of modern life drive this sharply observed, philosophically charged story toward a hard-won, unsparing hope.
Available Editions
paperback
Pan Macmillan
Published Jan 1, 2024
ISBN: 9781035026395
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq.