{"product_id":"the-elementary-particles","title":"The Elementary Particles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This remarkable best-seller \" wrote The Economist  \"is Frances biggest literary sensation since Franoise Sagan  people are saying  or since Albert Camus even . . . The passing to a new generation of the literary flame--albeit  in this instance  a blowtorch.\" In a firestorm of controversy  laffaire Houellebecq has spread throughout Europe and beyond  with translations of the book undertaken in nearly thirty countries around the world.  The central characters  Bruno and Michel  were born to a bohemian mother (but they had different fathers  of course) at the height of the sixties. Following her inevitable divorce  they endured separate childhoods and developed distinct identities. Bruno--a failure to his own family and literary calling--is pursued by sexual obsession and madness. Michel--a wholly asexual molecular biologist--expresses his disgust with society by engineering one that frees mankind at last from its uncontrollable  destructive urges.  An international phenomenon  The Elementary Particles is a furiously important novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945956044853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375407707","price":24.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375407703.jpg?v=1769916297","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-elementary-particles","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}