Submission: A Novel

A controversial, clever, and mordantly humorous new novel from France’s most well-known residing literary determine

It’s 2022. François is bored. He’s a middle-aged lecturer on the New Sorbonne College and an skilled on J. Ok. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist related to the Decadent motion. However François’s personal decadence is of significantly smaller scale. He sleeps along with his college students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.

In the meantime, it’s election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France’s new Islamic celebration sweeps to energy―and Islamic regulation is instituted. Girls are veiled, polygamy is inspired, and François is obtainable an irresistible tutorial development―on the situation that he converts to Islam.

A darkly comedian masterpiece from one in every of France’s nice writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has change into a global sensation and one of the crucial mentioned novels of our time.