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Platform / Michel Houellebecq ; translated by Frank Wynne

After meeting a compelling woman on holiday, a disillusioned civil servant helps develop a controversial business model based on sex tourism. Their subsequent return to Thailand reveals the dangerous realities of human desire and its commercial exploitation.

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