Used book – The Possibility of an Island - Prix Interallié 2005, Michel Houellebecq

"Both an anticipation novel and a warning, The Possibility of an Island is also a reflection on the power of love. One quickly feels the urge to compare one's own reading with that of others. If there are books one wants to keep to oneself, this is certainly not the case with Houellebecq's, as if they always offered the possibility of a confrontation."Franck Nouchi, Le Monde" This novel shakes you to your core. It has the visionary power of an Aldous Huxley and the cruelty of an Evelyn Waugh. A raging bull in the china shop of contemporary fiction."David Coward, Times Literary Supplement" Michel Houellebecq creates great art here, so honest, precise, raw and true is his writing. Beyond theses on the end of religions or the dream of a New Man, it is above all a book about fear."Volker Weidermann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung