Submission: A Novel

Submission: A Novel

<p><b>A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France</b>€<b>s most famous living literary figure</b></p><p>It€s 2022. Fran§ois 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 Fran§ois€s own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.</p><p>Meanwhile, it€s election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France€s new Islamic party sweeps to power€•and Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and Fran§ois is offered an irresistible academic advancement€•on the condition that he converts to Islam.</p><p>A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France€s great writers, <i>Submission </i>by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.</p>