{"product_id":"9781035026418","title":"Annihilation","description":"Author: Michel Houellebecq\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035026418\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 26 Aug 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 544 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades' –\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'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' – \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIt is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nAs the country plunges into a closely-fought presidential campaign, the French state falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. The sophisticated nature of the attacks leaves the best computer scientists at the DGSI – the French counter-terrorism agency – scrambling for answers.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nAn advisor to the country’s Finance Minister, Paul Raison is close to the heart of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official, while his father Édouard, now retired, has spent his career working for the DGSI. When Édouard has a stroke, his children have an opportunity to repair their strained relationships, as they determine to free their father from the medical centre where he is wasting away.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMichel Houellebecq’s \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e reveals new sides to his writing, adding compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage and irony that have powered both him and his earlier works to international fame.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'We have no one to match Houellebecq' – \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the French by Shaun Whiteside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAnnihilation \u003c\/i\u003ewas a #1 \u003ci\u003eLivres Hebdo\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller in France w\/c 10\/01\/2022, and a #1 \u003ci\u003eSpiegel \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller in Germany w\/c 24\/01\/2022","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46677227208862,"sku":"TLD-9781035026418","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035026418.jpg?v=1775454702","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035026418","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}