The release date for the English version of 'The Elementary Particles' by
Michel Houellebecq is Nov 2001. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A worldwide literary sensation, The Elementary Particles is a startlingly unique book that delves deeply into the misery of modern life. It is reminiscent of a cross between Bret Easton Ellis and Marguerite Duras.
Michel and Bruno are half-brothers who were left behind by their mother, a proud supporter of the drug-addled, free-love 1960s culture. The elder Bruno has turned into a boisterous, promiscuous hedonist, while Michel is a cold-blooded molecular scientist who lives alone in his job. In the end, everybody is given one more opportunity at true love, and the story that emerges is witty, surprising, and acerbic.