{"product_id":"submission-9781250097347","title":"Submission","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France\u003c\/b\u003e'\u003cb\u003es most famous living literary figure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 2022. Fran ois 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 Fran ois's own decadence is of considerably smaller scale. He sleeps with his students, eats microwave dinners, and watches YouPorn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, 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 Fran ois is offered an irresistible academic advancement--on the condition that he converts to Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA darkly comic masterpiece from one of France's great writers, \u003ci\u003eSubmission \u003c\/i\u003eby Michel Houellebecq has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250097347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Michel Houellebecq","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648583168156,"sku":"9781250097347","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5b093e30-54f6-4c49-9c80-ea5832bcfb1f.jpg?v=1603870459","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/submission-9781250097347","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}