David Sexton

Heartbreaking scenes: Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq, reviewed

Set in 2027, with France in a state of economic and moral decay, Houellebecq’s deeply affecting novel is really a meditation on love and death and the way we treat the dying

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  • Annihilation

    Michel Houellebecq, translated by Shaun Whiteside

    Picador, pp. 527, £22

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