{"product_id":"books-serotonin-by-michel-houellebecq","title":"Serotonin","description":"LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020   A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age  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.  'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner   Michel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times. . . Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' Evening Standard","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480303329553,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781529111712.jpg?v=1777545668","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-serotonin-by-michel-houellebecq","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}