{"product_id":"serotonin-paperback","title":"Serotonin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShaun Whiteside\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMichel Houellebecq\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Houellebecq's \u003ci\u003eSerotonin \u003c\/i\u003eis a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is \"dying of sadness.\" He hates his young girlfriend, and the feeling is almost certainly mutual; his career is pretty much over; and he has to keep himself thoroughly medicated to cope with day-to-day life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuffocating in the rampant loneliness, consumerism, hedonism, and sprawl of the city, Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses and where he was once in love, and even--it now seems--happy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and by European agricultural policies, and encounters farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to a simpler age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the farmers prepare for what might be an armed insurrection, it becomes clear that the health of one miserable body and of a suffering body politic are not so different, and that all parties may be rushing toward a catastrophe that a whole drugstore's worth of antidepressants won't make bearable.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichel Houellebecq is a French novelist, poet, and literary critic. His novels include the international bestsellers \u003ci\u003eSubmission\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Elementary Particles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Map and the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2010 Prix Goncourt. He lives in France. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShaun Whiteside is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature. He has translated many novels, including \u003ci\u003eManituana and Altai\u003c\/i\u003e, by Wu Ming; \u003ci\u003eThe Weekend, \u003c\/i\u003e by Bernhard Schlink; and \u003ci\u003eMagdalene the Sinner\u003c\/i\u003e, by Lilian Faschinger, which won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation in 1997.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Man Booker International Prize (2020)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700022382655,"sku":"9781250758088","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6eaf8ac6e8f2daa1942bb494bf6faa42.webp?v=1765015274","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/serotonin-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}