This French best seller is a novel about a pair of half-brothers--same irresponsible hippie mother, different fathers--who meet in later life. Raised apart by two sets of grandparents, they are remarkably dissimilar: one is a mentally...

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early f...