Arriving in bookshops on January 4, the author's seventh novel superstar Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin, is one of the most heartbreaking. The author tells us the story of a man, Florent-Claude, a forty-six year-old agricultural engineer who failed to seize his chance and who, stupidly, naively, missed out on his life. But beyond the story of a wasted destiny, Michel Houellebecq once again confirms, for some a prophetic talent, for others, that he really does possess a fine and particularly sharp eye for today's world.