{"product_id":"platform-9781400030262","title":"Platform","description":"In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his father's death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent--the shyly compelling Val rie--who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya Beach and from sex clubs to a terrorist massacre, \u003cb\u003ePlatform\u003c\/b\u003e is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the world's most original and daring writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Houellebecq's \u003cb\u003eThe Elementary Particles\u003c\/b\u003e, an international bestseller, won the prestigious Prix Novembre in France as well as the lucrative International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He lives in Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50566455525650,"sku":"9781400030262","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3a741c38-ebb6-455e-9248-cbce3f89e65c.jpg?v=1731899125","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/platform-9781400030262","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}