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The strange love-in between Michel Houellebecq and Emmanuel Macron

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

France’s literary event of the year took place this week with the publication of Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, Serotonin. Named after the brain chemical that regulates mood, his seventh novel has been described by one French newspaper as ‘prophesying the yellow vest movement’.

The critics have lavished praise and the public are plucking it from the shelves.

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