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Elementary particles

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Michel Houellebecq's rise to world fame began a quarter of a century ago with the publication of his novel "The Elementary Particles". This was followed by the planetary bestsellers "Platform", "The Possibility of an Island", "Submission", "Serotonin", "Destroy", the Goncourt Prize and the Legion of Honor. At the center of the sensational novel is the fate of two brothers. Both, each in his own way, persistently seek happiness in the world around them, obviously not created for happiness. One of them, a biologist, makes an assumption about the possibility of radical changes in human genes, as a result of which a new species of "happy" people should appear. Houellebecq allowed these thinking beings, not subject to human weaknesses and delusions, to judge the lives of our contemporaries and managed to do what few have managed: he truly shocked the public. The novel was nominated for the Goncourt Prize, but did not win it, but it did win a kind of "anti-Goncourt" - the November Prize - and was recognized by the authoritative magazine Lire as the Best Book of the Year. Published in a new translation by Maria Zonina.
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