The Elementary Particles

In The Elementary Particles, a novel praised by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and other literary greats, you will find the perfect mix of brilliant, caustic, comic and severe. This is an unflinching look at a modern world plagued by consumerism, materialism and unchecked scientific experimentation. An international bestseller and controversial literary phenomenon that drew immediate comparison to the novels of Beckett, Huxley, and Camus; The Elementary Particles tells the story of two half-brothers abandoned by a mother who gave herself fully to the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, overweight and a failure at everything, is himself a raucously promiscuous hedonist, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love; what unfolds is an endlessly unpredictable and provocative tale that speaks to the impossible redemption of the human condition.