Annihilation

The most interesting novelist of our timesEvening Standard

Michel Houellebecq’s new book proves he is one of the world’s greatest novelists . . . He writes superbly . . . In England . . . we have no one, male or female, to match HouellebecqThe Daily Telegraph

Surely the most important novelist to have been publishing not only in France but in all of Europe over the past three decades.David Sexton, The Sunday Times

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