ADaily ExpressBook of the Year’A must-read’ Evening Standard’Houellebecqs new book proves he is one of the worlds greatest novelists’ The Daily Telegraph’The most important novelist to have been publishing in all of Europe over the past three decades’ The Sunday TimesAs France is in the midst of a closely fought presidential campaign, the government falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. Paul Raison is caught up in the states scrambled response, working as an advisor to the finance minister and with family connections to the DGSI, the French counterterrorism agency.But Pauls private life is as strained as the nation is troubled. His marriage has collapsed, hes drifted from his siblings, and their father has been hospitalised following a stroke. In telling Pauls story,Annihilationmoves seamlessly between tense espionage thriller and poignant family drama. The result is an extraordinary and moving meditation on loving, caring and dying.’Annihilationleans neither towards hope nor despair, but towards a transcendent serenity’The GuardianTranslated from the French by Shaun WhitesideAnnihilationwas a #1Livres Hebdobestseller in France w/c 10/01/2022, and a #1Spiegelbestseller in Germany w/c 24/01/2022