Serotonin

"My beliefs are limited, but intense. I believe in the possibilities of the special kingdom. I believe in love," Michel Houellebecq wrote recently.
The depressed narrator of Serotonin would agree without reservation. His story takes place in a France that is squandering its traditions, draining its cities of their charm, and ravaging its countryside until popular uprising ensues. He tells of his life as an agricultural engineer, his friendship with a noble farmer (an unforgettable character – his mirror-image doppelganger), the failure of their youthful ideals, the perhaps foolish hope of finding a lost woman.
This novel about the ruins of a world without goodness, without solidarity, with uncontrollable changes, is also a novel about remorse and regret. 'No one in the West will be happy anymore.'