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Submission


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Political Fiction,
  • Satire,
  • Near-Future
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Satirical takes on academia and intellectual malaise
  • Political fiction set in a near-future Paris
  • Narratives where personal ambition collides with cultural upheaval
Publisher Description

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

Paris, 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the Sorbonne and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famous nineteenth-century "decadent" author. But François's own decadence is considerably smaller in scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, reads the classics, queues up YouPorn.

Meanwhile, it's election season. And although Francois feels "about as politicized as a hand towel," things are getting pretty interesting. In an alliance with the socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to power. Islamic law comes into force. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and Francois is offered an irresistible academic advancement--on condition that he convert to Islam.

Michel Houellebecq's Submission may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious; a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists.

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