The Map and the Territory


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Description

The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons.

Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portraits of various personalities, including a writer named Houellebecq. Not long afterward, Jed helps a police inspector solve a heinous crime that leaves lasting marks on everyone involved. But after burying his father and growing old himself, Jed also discovers serenity, a deeply moving conclusion to a life of lovers, friends, and family, and filled with hopes, losses, and dreams.

Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/13/2012
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.30w x 0.83d
ISBN13: 9780307946539
ISBN10: 0307946533
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage

About the Author
Already honored with the Prix Novembre and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Michel Houellebecq won the Prix Goncourt for The Map and the Territory in 2010.