Lanzarote Neil Humphreys Trapped in their benefactor’s tightening

Trapped in their benefactor’s tightening grasp

The ability to walk upright on two legs is one of the major traits that define us as humans

a motely group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror

but now that her little brother is gone too

Lanzarote Neil Humphreys Trapped in their benefactor’s tighteningIn the follow up to his hugely successful and Impac award winning Atomised, Michel Houellebecq explores the hedonism of Lanzarote, the archetypal holiday island, in a book that is as blisteringly funny and acid as his novel. In the sector of the holiday market that caters for sun, sangria and house music, not to mention sex, Lanzarote rivals Corfu and Ibiza. Tourism in Lanzarote remains resolutely ungreen and certainly wholly uncultural, 21st century