The Map and the Territory

Impressive... Beguiling... He is a true original

Observer

Elegiac... Compelling... A pleasure to read

Times Literary Supplement

This book, so beautifully written, so inspiriting for all its pessimism, is the new novel I have loved best this year. We have not his equal

David Sexton, Spectator

Have Michel Houellebecq and Martin Amis ever met? Despite a stylistic gulf…they might be spiritual cousins… In this Goncourt-winning novel, as amiably mischievous as the enfant terrible ever gets, his satirical burlesques of the Parisian art world and of tourist kitsch in La France Profonde comes closer to his cross-Channel twin than ever

Boyd Tonkin, Independent Radar

A wry, clever, ruthlessly self-lacerating novel

David Evans, Independent on Sunday

A delicious exercise in satire and self-parody... His best ever

Daily Telegraph

The outlaw of French letters returns with an acerbic riff on art and celebrity... witty, wildly erudite

The Times

A dark master of invention... From the very first paragraph of this brilliant novel, the reader can be in no doubt that they're in the blisteringly bleak, darkly inventive grand massif that is Houellebeqc land

Evening Standard