Paris 2022. Literature professor François lives a life of ready meals, bought sex and half-hearted relationships with younger female students. The only thing he really cares about is the decadent writer Huysman, about whom he has written a thesis. But with the impending presidential election, his life just as quietly begins to turn upside down. To prevent the far-right Front National party from coming to power, the other parties enter into a coalition with the Muslim Brotherhood, and the charismatic Mohammed Ben Abbes is installed as the country's new president. He introduces sharia-light, and gradually French society begins to change: women withdraw from the labor market, unemployment falls significantly and university employees convert to Islam - and François also has to review his life.
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The author
Michel Houellebecq (b. 1958) is one of the greatest writers of our time, and his books have been translated into more than 40 languages. A trained agricultural engineer, he made his international breakthrough with Elementarpartikler (2001), and since then every release has been an event. In 2010, he received France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt Prize, for the novel The Map and the Landscape (2012), and he followed up the success with the novels Submission (2015) and Serotonin (2019). Since then, his earlier essays Staying alive and Interventions have also been made available in Danish. Latest publication is the novel Annihilate (2022).
