Summary
Michel Houellebecq: The possibility of an island
The possibility of an island
The long-awaited new novel of a writer who has accustomed readers to shocks. Writing about the heat stroke in the summer of 2003, when 10,000 elderly people died in France, Houellebeq derives the theory that this death of elderly people left to die without family and medical care was an indicator of the high development of French society. He puts forward the thesis that youth is a fetish, and old people are an economic and aesthetic burden. The plot of the novel develops around a religious sect that promises people eternal life. DNA will be taken from members of the sect and stored for future cloning.
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