by Michel Houellebecq · Alfaguara Portugal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789898775276
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«Submissão» is the novel by Michel Houellebecq, published by Alfaguara Portugal in paperback (288 pages, in Portuguese).
Paris, 2022. François, an apathetic university professor, witnesses decisive elections: the Muslim Brotherhood challenges the National Front for power. After the victory, he returns to an unrecognizable city and must decide whether to submit to the new social and religious order. It is a fable about the clash of cultures and the fragility of democracy.
This Portuguese edition was published in April 2015; the original appeared as Soumission in January 2015.
For readers of political and dystopian fiction interested in tensions between West and East.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel Whatever in 1994 and his second, Atomised, in 1998, to international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
