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Timely Novels

December 22, 2015

Prophetic or just well-timed? Several novels from 2015 were overtaken by real events: Salman Rushdie conjured up a state of emergency and Michel Houellebecq played with the West's fear of Islam.

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Deutschland Frankreich Schriftsteller Michel Houellebecq Buch Unterwerfung
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