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Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.
A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system.
Houellebecq's first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation.
Houellebecq's bitter, sarcastic and exasperated narrator vociferously expresses his frustration and disgust with the world.
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