description: Houellebecq's new novel tells the story of an attempt to create a package-holiday company for sex-tourists. Less philosophical and grandly ambitious than Atomised, it is, if anything, even more outrageously funny and bitingly satirical of the ways we live now than the earlier novel. Added to which, there is a genuinely moving love affair, real characters and a real plot!
language: English
title: Platform
titlecomplete: Platform
characters: Valérie, Jean-Yves, Michel Renault
genres: Fiction, French Literature, France, Contemporary, Sexuality, Roman, Travel, 21st Century, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 21852
places: Paris, Thailand
publisher: Heinemann