num_pages: 352
description: A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished.Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of everything we have and are at risk of losing. It is a masterpiece from one of the world's most innovative writers.
language: English
title: The Possibility of an Island
titlecomplete: The Possibility of an Island
genres: France, Philosophy, 21st Century, Dystopia, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, French Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 14797
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Prix Interallié, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: Vintage