Submission: A Novel [Paperback]

A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from Frances most famous living literary figure

Its 2022. Fran?ois 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 Fran?oiss 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 powerand Islamic law is instituted. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and Fran?ois is offered an irresistible academic advancementon the condition that he converts to Islam.

A darkly comic masterpiece from one of Frances great writers,Submissionby Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.

Submissionmay be the most relevant book of the year. Daniel D'Addario,Time

Houellebecq is considered a great contemporary author, and one cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading his work . . . What prevents me from reading Houellebecq and watching von Trier is a kind of envy  not that I begrudge them success, but by reading the books and watching the films I would be reminded of how excellent a work of art can be, and of how far beneath that level my own work is. Karl Ove Knausgaard,The New York Times Book Review

The political elements ofSubmissionare so comically exaggerated that it's hard to take them very seriously . . . This is the novel's big joke. It's designed to agitate the right by slҬ