- Published: 1 June 2012
- ISBN: 9780099554578
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
The Map and the Territory
- Published: 1 June 2012
- ISBN: 9780099554578
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $22.99
Impressive... Beguiling... He is a true original
Observer
Elegiac... Compelling... A pleasure to read
Times Literary Supplement
This book, so beautifully written, so inspiriting for all its pessimism, is the new novel I have loved best this year. We have not his equal
David Sexton, Spectator
Have Michel Houellebecq and Martin Amis ever met? Despite a stylistic gulf…they might be spiritual cousins… In this Goncourt-winning novel, as amiably mischievous as the enfant terrible ever gets, his satirical burlesques of the Parisian art world and of tourist kitsch in La France Profonde comes closer to his cross-Channel twin than ever
Boyd Tonkin, Independent Radar
A wry, clever, ruthlessly self-lacerating novel
David Evans, Independent on Sunday
A delicious exercise in satire and self-parody... His best ever
Daily Telegraph
The outlaw of French letters returns with an acerbic riff on art and celebrity... witty, wildly erudite
The Times
A dark master of invention... From the very first paragraph of this brilliant novel, the reader can be in no doubt that they're in the blisteringly bleak, darkly inventive grand massif that is Houellebeqc land
Evening Standard