The elementary particles
By: by Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
Contributors: Wynne, Frank.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Description: Follows the lives and fortunes of Bruno and Marcel, born to a bohemian mother during the 1960s, who are brought up separately and pursue their own individual paths -- as Bruno battles madness and sexual obsession and Michel, a molecular biologist, comes up with a unique way to express his disgust with the violence of humankind.