by Michel Houellebecq · J Ai Lu Editions · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290028520
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Plateforme» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by J'ai Lu in paperback (350 pages, in French).
Michel, a civil servant at the French Ministry of Culture, travels to Thailand after his father's death and meets Valérie, an executive at a travel agency. Their relationship leads them to devise a sex tourism business. With irony and provocation, the novel portrays loneliness, consumerism and the search for pleasure in a globalized world.
Originally published in 2001, this paperback edition was published on 8 September 2010.
For readers of contemporary French literature and fans of Michel Houellebecq; contains adult themes.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel Whatever in 1994 and his second, Atomised, in 1998, to international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
