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product_id: 198743031
title: "The Elementary Particles (Vintage International)"
brand: "michel houellebecq"
price: "SAR 132"
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# The Elementary Particles (Vintage International)

**Brand:** michel houellebecq
**Price:** SAR 132
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- **What is this?** The Elementary Particles (Vintage International) by michel houellebecq
- **How much does it cost?** SAR 132 with free shipping
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## Description

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.
Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.
Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Dimensions | 13.03 x 1.47 x 20.22 cm |
| Isbn 10 | 0375727019 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0375727016 |
| Item Weight | 227 g |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 272 pages |
| Publication Date | 1 Nov. 2001 |
| Publisher | Vintage |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ First half boring but sets stage for thought provoking and enlightening unravel.
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 2 April 2018*

Read a couple of novels in a week and then got 'stuck' on this for several weeks. I was not feeling the set up, the first half, the free-love critique (or rather just observation of). I nearly quit this book. I don't like quitting books. I really like Houellebcq as a writer although he could never truly be my favourite. He's brilliant and edgy and I perceive his writing as a little 'fractured'; almost like trying to picture the Mona Lisa using theoretical physics.Anyway, I stuck through and just after the mid point it unveiled its mystique to me. If there is one thing that Houellebeq is a writer that is generally thought provoking. I had trudged through the mud, the crowds, the noise and the boredom and reached the show. I read the last half of the book in one night.So as much as I struggled to get in to this book I knew, once I'd put it down that I'd gained more from it than the next few novels I would likely read.Recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 12 December 2014*

Great quality, arrived on time.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Well written, but unconvincing
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 7 February 2007*

Mr. Houellebecq is a skilled writer and his books raises interesting points about the future. However, the beliefs and experiences of two eccentrics may just be the the beliefs and experiences of two eccentrics. Vulgarity, cruelty and existential doubt are not new phenomena.

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