The controversial new novel by Michel Houellebecq, which portrays a France where a fictional Muslim party wins the French election in 2022, will be released in the UK in September.
The book has been featured on the cover of this week’s Charlie Hebdo magazine.
In the wake of Wednesday’s attack on the French magazine which left 12 dead, publisher William Heinemann said that its “publishing plans remain unaltered” for the forthcoming English translation of Houellebecq’s book.
Writers around the world, including Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Art Spiegelman, have condemned the violence, putting their names to a statement from PEN American Center which calls for renewed efforts to protect “those working on the front lines of free expression” and describes the attack as “an attempt to inhibit the free flow of ideas”.
Source: The Guardian
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