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ATOMISED
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Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and an idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections.
A poet and novelist, Michel Houellebecq is a past winner of the Grand prix national des lettres and, for Atomised, the Prix novembre. Atomiised also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002. Michel Houellebecq lives in Ireland.
Very moving, gloriously, extravagantly filthy and very funny -- Independent
A novel which hunts big game while others settle for shooting rabbits -- Julian Barnes






