A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure
It's 2022. Francois 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 Francois'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 power--and...
A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure
2022, France. Islamic law comes into force throughout the country and, for one spiritually barren academic, life is set on a new course. This devastating satire is also a profound and painfully sharp meditation on isolation, faith and love. SUBMISSION is a startling new work by Michel Houellebecq, the bestselling author of ATOMISED and one of the most provocative novelists of today.
2022, France. Islamic law comes into force throughout the country and, for one spiritually barren academic, life is set on a new course. This devastat...
