Description
Serotonin
Michel Houellebecq
“The narrator, Florent-Claude Labrouste, is a depressed agricultural scientist who lives in a Parisian apartment block, the Tour Totem. He commutes to Normandy to help promote French cheese. Sympathetic to the plight of local farmers, he is powerless to help them retain their traditional methods:
In short, what is taking place with French agriculture is a vast redundancy plan, but one that is secret and invisible, where people disappear one by one, on their plots of land, without ever being noticed.
After watching a television documentary about people who choose to disappear from their life without telling anyone, Labrouste abruptly leaves his girlfriend, a young Japanese woman who is highly sexual but devoid of affection, quits his job under a false pretence and flees to a chain hotel in another part of Paris.
A doctor prescribes him an antidepressant to remedy his low levels of serotonin, hence the title of the novel.
ISBN: 978-9939-76-698-0
Pages: 312
Cover: Hard
Format: 12.5×20
Published by “Antares”, 2021