Title: Soumission

Title: Soumission Title Record # 1814933
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Date: 2015-01-07
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-FR
Language: French

Synopsis: In 2022 the Islamic candidate Mohammed Ben-Abbes runs for the French presidency and wins in the final election against National Front leader Marine Le Pen. The new president campaigns to enlarge the European Union to include North Africa, with the aim of making it a new Roman Empire. Against this background the professional and personal life of the literary professor François, an expert on Joris-Karl Huysmans, is highlighted. Finally, he submisses to the new Islamic rules.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
2015^ⓘTranslated by Norma Cassau and Bernd Wilczek	German	Unterwerfung
2015^ⓘTranslated by Lorin Stein	English	Submission

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Soumission	2015-01-07	Michel Houellebecq	Flammarion	978-2-08-135480-7	€21.00^?€: Euro	300+ [4]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Unterwerfung	2015-01-16	Michel Houellebecq	DuMont	978-3-8321-9795-7	€22.99^?€: Euro	270	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Submission	2015-09-10	Michel Houellebecq	William Heinemann	978-1-78515-024-1	£18.99^?£: UK pound	252	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Plainpicture
Submission	2015-10-20	Michel Houellebecq	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	978-0-374-71448-2	$11.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Submission	2015-10-20	Michel Houellebecq	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	978-0-374-27157-2	$25.00^?$: US dollar	256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Submission	2016-02-25	Michel Houellebecq	William Heinemann	978-1-78515-087-6	£12.99^?£: UK pound	256	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Plainpicture
Submission	2016-09-01	Michel Houellebecq	Vintage (UK)	978-1-78470-205-2	£8.99^?£: UK pound	256	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Soumission	2016-10-12	Michel Houellebecq	Reclam (Universal-Bibliothek #19922)	978-3-15-019922-0	€9.80^?€: Euro	332	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Submission	2016-10-25	Michel Houellebecq	Picador USA	978-1-250-09734-7	$16.00^?$: US dollar	246	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Submission	date unknown	Michel Houellebecq	William Heinemann	978-1-78515-025-8	£12.99^?£: UK pound	252	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Plainpicture

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Reviews

Review [German] by Hans Mentz (2015) in
Titanic, März 2015^?Titanic, Maerz 2015
Review by Grégory Drake (2015) in Bifrost, #78
Review [English] by Norman Spinrad (2018) in Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2018
Review [German] by Wolfgang Asholt (2022) in Nova, #31