A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from
France's most famous living literary figure
It's 2022. François 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
François'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 François 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.