Michel Houellebecq’s third novel Platform , which involves a terrorist bombing in southeast Asia, came out the year before a similar real-life incident occurred in Thailand. His seventh novel Submission , about the conversion of France into a Muslim country, came out the same day as the massacre at […]

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