AnnihilationAnnihilation A number one bestseller in France, Germany and Italy, the masterpiece from the acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission. Now in B format. A Daily Express Book of the Year 'A must read' Evening Standard 'Houellebecqs new book proves he is one of the worlds greatest novelists' The Daily Telegraph 'The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades' The Sunday Times As France is in the midst

Annihilation

A number one bestseller in France, Germany and Italy, the masterpiece from the acclaimed author of Atomised and Submission.Now in B format.

A Daily Express Book of the Year

'A must-read' – Evening Standard

'Houellebecq’s new book proves he is one of the world’s greatest novelists' – The Daily Telegraph

'The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades' – The Sunday Times

As France is in the midst of a closely fought presidential campaign, the government falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. Paul Raison is caught up in the state’s scrambled response, working as an advisor to the finance minister and with family connections to the DGSI, the French counterterrorism agency.

But Paul’s private life is as strained as the nation is troubled. His marriage has collapsed, he’s drifted from his siblings, and their father has been hospitalised following a stroke. In telling Paul’s story, Annihilation moves seamlessly between tense espionage thriller and poignant family drama. The result is an extraordinary and moving meditation on loving, caring and dying.

'Annihilation leans neither towards hope nor despair, but towards a transcendent serenity' The Guardian

Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside

_{Annihilation 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}

'The most interesting novelist of our times' - Evening 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 Houellebecq' - The Daily Telegraph

'A compassionate, deeply affecting novel about love and death and the way we treat the dying . . . worthy of Balzac . . . telling truths that come straight from Pascal. We can only hope that it is not Houellebecq’s swansong, after all' - The Spectator

'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.' - The New Statesman

'Annihilation leans neither towards hope nor despair, but towards a transcendent serenity – an eerie peace that arises, as everything arises in this novel, in the space to which warring forces give shape' - The Guardian

'Since the start of his literary career, Michel Houellebecq has been viewed in France as a prodigy whom his readers and critics both love hating and hate loving. As well as a bestselling novelist, he has become a social phenomenon: a rock star, a freak, a visionary genius, a political agitator, even, for some, a prophet.' - The Times Literary Supplement

'A shattering read. But it's a truly powerful one too, and about much more than the grim picture of French society for which its brilliant author is mostly known' - The Big Issue

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Michel Houellebecq - Мишель Уэльбек

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Language:English

Publication Date:2025

Number of pages:544 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:130 mm / 5,1'

Height:198 mm / 7,8'

Weight:362 g

ISBN:9781035026418