SOUMISSION
November 2015
‘Submission’ is a deeply unpleasant, dystopian novel, but something does ring true in this unlikely tale of an Islamist takeover in Paris
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March 2015
Michel Houllebecq's Soumission is provocative but treads familiar territory
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