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Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.
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- Title
- Serotonin
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michel Houellebecq
- Publisher
- William Heinemannn
- Released
- 2019
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, France, Relationships, Sexuality & Intimacy, Literary Fiction, French Literature, Race, Racism, Paris, Suicide, Depression, Globalization, Medicines, Pharmaceuticals, Life Crisis, Life Problems, Misogyny
- First published
- 2019
- Original title
- Sérotonine
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.