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Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq

How to pronounce Michel Houellebecq: me-shell oo-ell-beck ("oo-ell" will sound like "well" to many English speakers)

Read-Alikes for Michel Houellebecq

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  • Leila Aboulela

    Leila Aboulela

    Leila Aboulela won the first Caine Prize for African Writing and is the author of many novels. Minaret was longlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize. The Translator was one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year. ... (more)

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    The Kindness of Enemies
    by Leila Aboulela

  • Rabih Alameddine

    Rabih Alameddine

    Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels An Unnecessary Woman; I, the Divine; Koolaids; The Hakawati; The Wrong End of the Telescope; and the story collection, The Perv. In 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize. (more)

    If you enjoyed:
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    Try:
    An Unnecessary Woman
    by Rabih Alameddine

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