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Submission / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Lorin Stein.
In a near-future France, Fran©ʹois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, Fran©ʹois is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the vacuum of his existence. And he is not alone. As the 2022 Presidential election approaches, two candidates emerge as favorites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the nascent Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the mainstream parties, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for Fran©ʹois, life is set on a new course.
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- ISBN: 9780374271572 :
- ISBN: 0374271577
- Physical Description: 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
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| Bedford Free Library | FIC HOU (Text) | 31002150739166 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION HOUELLEBECQ (Text) | 31004151469173 | Fiction | Available | - |
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| Irvington Public Library | FIC HOUELLEBECQ, M (Text) | 31012154211765 | Fiction | Available | - |
| John C. Hart Memorial Library | HOUELLEBECQ (Text) | 31030154353031 | Fiction | Available | - |
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