Koop Vandaag Whatever – Michel Houellebecq

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he’s packed off with a colleague – the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand – to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system… A painfully realistic portraya…