pbWinner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature PrizebbrbbbrbOne of iPublishers Weeklyi's Ten Best Books of 2015bbrbbbrbA iHuffington Posti Best Fiction Book of the YearbbrbbbrbbIn 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.ppIn 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, iFlavorwirei, iImperiumi is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant---sometimes all on the same page.p