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Name: Plateforme
Rating: 3.285714285714 (7 reviews)
Author: Michel Houellebecq

Michel Renault, a disenchanted civil servant, leads a routine life filled with prepackaged pleasures and hollow relationships. On a Thai group holiday he meets Valerie, whose presence sparks a daring transformation. Returning to Paris, they explore S&M, public sex, and partner‑swapping while scheming to revive her struggling travel company by capitalizing on the burgeoning sex‑tourism market in the third world. Motivated by newfound freedom, Michel quits his job and implements their business model, only to discover that sex is not the ultimate source of passion or danger.

First publish date: November 2002

Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction

Authors: Michel Houellebecq

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