{"product_id":"annihilation-by-michel-houellebecq-9781035026418","title":"Annihilation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/em\u003e was a Daily Express Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades' - The Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An extended meditation on human frailty and the lack of spirituality in the Western world... Houellebecq displays compassion and empathy, and a belief in the redemptive power of love' - New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the country plunges into a closely-fought presidential campaign, the French state falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. The sophisticated nature of the attacks leaves the best computer scientists at the DGSI - the French counter-terrorism agency - scrambling for answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn advisor to the country's Finance Minister, Paul Raison is close to the heart of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official, while his father Édouard, now retired, has spent his career working for the DGSI. When Édouard has a stroke, his children have an opportunity to repair their strained relationships, as they determine to free their father from the medical centre where he is wasting away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichel Houellebecq's \u003cem\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/em\u003e reveals new sides to his writing, adding compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage and irony that have powered both him and his earlier works to international fame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'We have no one to match Houellebecq' - The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/em\u003e was a #1 Livres Hebdo bestseller in France w\/c 10\/01\/2022, and a #1 Spiegel bestseller in Germany w\/c 24\/01\/2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Distribution and Logistics Company (TDLC)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46670943486188,"sku":"9781035026418","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035026418.jpg?v=1752809095","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/annihilation-by-michel-houellebecq-9781035026418","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}