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