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A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure

It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But François's own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.

Meanwhile, it's election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to powerand Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancementon the condition that he converts to Islam.

A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France's great writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.

Submission

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    A Paperback / softback by Michel Houellebecq, Lorin Stein

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 25 October 2016
      ISBN-13 9781250097347
      978-1250097347
      ISBN-10 1250097347
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      Books by Michel Houellebecq

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure

      It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the Decadent movement. But François's own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.

      Meanwhile, it's election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to powerand Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancementon the condition that he converts to Islam.

      A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France's great writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.

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