The Map and the Territory

Author

Michel Houellebecq

Original Work

The Map and the Territory

Translator

Gavin Bowd

Language

English

Year

2012

Publisher

Vintage

Country

United States

Pages

288

ISBN

978-0307946539

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The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons. Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portraits of various personalities, including a writer named Houellebecq. Not long afterward, Jed helps a police inspector solve a heinous crime that leaves lasting marks on everyone involved. But after burying his father and growing old himself, Jed also discovers serenity, a deeply moving conclusion to a life of lovers, friends, and family, and filled with hopes, losses, and dreams.— Google Books