An instant international bestseller, "Submission may be the most relevant book of the year" (Time magazine).
It's 2022. François is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University 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, indulges in YouPorn.

Meanwhile, it's election season, and in an alliance with the Socialists, France's new Islamic party sweeps to power and Islamic law comes into force. Women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged, and François is offered an irresistible academic advancement—on the condition that he convert.

A darkly comic masterpiece from one of France's great writers, Submission has become an international sensation and one of the most discussed novels of our time.

• A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
• Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, Paste magazine, and Chicago Tribune