Summary
Michel Houellebecq: Destroy
Just before the French presidential elections in 2027, a video appears on the Internet showing the guillotining of Finance Minister Bruno Juge. After an attack on a sperm bank and immigrants heading to Europe, clues lead to radical environmental groups that use cryptic geometric symbols.
Houellebecq in the novel "Destroy" paints an intriguing and movingly precise portrait of a country, its political and health system. His estranged anti-hero has finally found his place in the world, and along the way has come to terms with his own mortality.
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