The Map and the Territory

Title: The Map and the Territory
Author: Michel Houellebecq
ISBN: 9780307946539
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 288
Section: Fiction | Literary
Publisher Description:

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.