{"product_id":"9780374714482","title":"Submission","description":"\u003cp\u003eA controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous literary figure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, 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.\u003cbr\u003e    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. \u003cbr\u003e    Adam Gopnik in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e has said of this novel that \"Houellebecq is not merely a satirist but--more unusually--a \u003ci\u003esincere\u003c\/i\u003e satirist, genuinely saddened by the absurdities of history and the madnesses of mankind.\" Michel Houellebecq's \u003ci\u003eSubmission\u003c\/i\u003e may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious; a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121381753072,"sku":"9780374714482","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374714482_p0.jpg?v=1763691473","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374714482","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}