num_pages: 272
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.
language: English
title: The Elementary Particles
titlecomplete: The Elementary Particles
characters: Bruno Clément, Michel Djerzinski, Janine Ceccaldi, Annabelle, Christiane
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Roman, Fiction, Contemporary, France
ratings_count: 42074
places: Galway, Paris
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage