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Serotonin (Hardcover)
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Serotonin (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R514
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE THE 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 Times
Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is
dying of sadness. His young girlfriend hates him and his career as
an engineer at the Ministry of Agriculture is pretty much over. His
only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small.
Recently released for public consumption, Captorix is a new brand
of anti-depressant which works by altering the brain's release of
serotonin. Armed with this new drug, Labrouste decides to abandon
his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside where he
used to work promoting regional cheeses, and where he had once been
in love. But instead of happiness, he finds a rural community
devastated by globalisation and European agricultural policies, and
local farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible
return to what they remember as the golden age. Written by one of
the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation,
Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and
individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.
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