Serotonin

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020

Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.

When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.

Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age.LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020

Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.

When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.

Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age.
Michel Houellebecq (Author)
Michel Houellebecq is a poet, essayist and novelist. He is the author of several novels including The Map and the Territory (winner of the Prix Goncourt), Atomised, Platform, Whatever and Submission. He was awarded the Legion d'Honneur in 2019.