Submission
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Submission
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National’s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for our narrator François – misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated – life is set on a new course. Submission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society.
The Submission
“Masterful . . . [A] scathing, dazzlingly crafted indictment of the messes people make when they mistake ideology for morality and bigotry for patriotism.” —Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly A jury gathers in Manhattan to select the 9/11 memorial for the victims of the devastating terrorist attack. But when the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner’s name—and discover he is an American Muslim, all are instantly cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. The memorial’s designer is an enigmatic architect named Mohammad Khan. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the self-possessed and mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, she finds herself under pressure from outraged family members as she confronts hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself—as unknowable as he is gifted. All will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy. A striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole in the wake of a national tragedy, The Submission is a piercing and resonant novel by an important new writer. “A story that has more verisimilitude, more political resonance, and way more heart than Mr. Wolfe’s . . . The Bonfire of the Vanities.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review “[A] fascinating examination of a grieving America’s relationship with itself.” —Chris Cleave, The Washington Post “A remarkably assured portrait of how a populace grows maddened and confused when ideology trumps empathy.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Frighteningly plausible.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Submission
You'll want to scream, but you'll be gagged. You'll want to cry, but you'll be blindfolded. You'll want to run away, but you'll be tied up. You'll have no way of begging me, I'll do what I want with you. Sexual obsession, domination and extreme lust – Submission is the story of a young married Parisian lawyer who is drawn into a sado-masochistic relationship. A handsome stranger she meets in the courts issues her with a series of instructions which she finds herself compelled to follow. As the violence of their encounters escalates, it becomes a dangerous addiction that she can't break. But how far can she go and how much of her life will she risk in the process? Based on the author's own experiences, this astonishing book sent shockwaves through the French establishment.