{"product_id":"9781529111712","title":"Serotonin","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlorent-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichel 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52929785561397,"sku":"EB_LI0700_N04-01_AD","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9781529111712-1_e7aa3a02-bf5b-4fb1-8926-d3be507382bc.jpg?v=1792206975","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/products\/9781529111712","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}