by Michel Houellebecq - £8.99 Vintage Publishing (2016)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781784702052 | ISBN 10: 1784702056
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National�s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for our narrator Fran�ois � misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated � life is set on a new course.
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Submission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society.
(Price & availability last checked: September 2016)
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