Submission: A Novel

ISBN: 1250097347

Author: Houellebecq, Michel

Condition: New

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from Frances most famous living literary figureIts 2022. Franois is bored. Hes 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 Franoiss own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.Meanwhile, its election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, Frances new Islamic party sweeps to power-and Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and Franois is offered an irresistible academic advancement-on the condition that he converts to Islam.A darkly comic masterpiece from one of Frances great writers, Submission by Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.