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Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas

Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas

Kracht, Christian
Bowles, Daniel

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Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1250097479
ISBN13: 9781250097477
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Nov 8 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Winner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize

One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2015

A Huffington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year

In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island of Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old.

In his first novel to be translated into English, internationally bestselling author Christian Kracht uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. A Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas (Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire), Imperium is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant---sometimes all on the same page.

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