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We Are the Kings

Michel Houellebecq

Translated by Paul Hammond

‘Smoking cigarettes has become the only element of real freedom in my day-to-day existence.’

Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq is a novelist and poet who cites as influences Neil Young, Schubert and Nietzsche. He is the bestselling author of Atomised, Platform, LanzaroteWhatever and The Possibility of an Island. His most recent novel is The Map and the Territory. He lives in County Cork, Ireland.

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Translated by Paul Hammond

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