The answer is "no" because in general there does not even exist a neighbourhood $U$ of your submanifold that holomorphically retracts to the submanifold. In fact Finnur Lárusson has [proved] [1] the following (warning: I have kept his notations, so as to faithfully quote him. In particular $[X]$ is $\mathcal O(X)$, the line bundle on $M$ associated to the divisor $X$) > **Theorem** Let $X$ be a connected hypersurface in a compact complex manifold M of dimension at least $2$. If (1) $H^0 (M, TM) = 0$ (2) $dim H^0(M; [X]) \geq 2$, and (3) $H^1(M; [X]^{-1} \otimes TM) = 0$, then no neighbourhood of $X$ retracts holomorphically onto $X$. Note that the hypotheses are very easy to satisfy: (1) holds for $K3$ surfaces for example and (2), (3) will follow from $X$ being sufficiently ample. [Here][2] is a freely downloadable version of Lárusson's article, from his homepage. [1]:http://www.springerlink.com/content/vbgj2c61q1u3v8fn/ [2]:http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/finnur.larusson/papers/retr.pdf