Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and Finance, is therefore very well informed.
While only a few days ago, he hinted that the next book by his friend Michel Houellebecq "
would return to tourism in French society and the defense of industry
", the publisher Flammarion has just announced the publication of a new novel for the Prix Goncourt on January 7, without revealing either the title or the subject.
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In addition to this date, the publisher indicates in a program of publications that the book will have 736 pages.
"
This new novel will be released in a hardcover edition, with a hard cover, with a slice and a colored bookmark
," added Flammarion, who will therefore make an object more luxurious than usual.
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For the moment it is therefore the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, who by affirming at the end of October in front of industrialists in Paris that he knew one of the themes of this book, best ensures the beginnings of the promotion of this work which, like the last novels of Michel Houellebecq, should generate a lot of ink.
As a preview of this eagerly awaited release, Flammarion is also reissuing on November 10, in the same format, three novels that made Houellebecq successful,
Extension du domaine de la Lutte
(1994),
Les Particules elementaires
(1998) and
Platform
(2001).
For the record, Michel Houellebecq's latest book,
Sérotonine
, released in January 2019, had sold more than 90,000 copies in some three days.
