The possibility of an islandA worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opusa 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