redbecca 's review for:

Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht

3.0

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It's an interesting premise, and the English edition is well written at the sentence level. As for the intriguing relationship between colonial Germany and this vegetarian cultist, it might have been too understated and sly for my taste. My sense after finishing it is that the book relies on a kind of detached and ironic perspective to avoid creating either a really deep character study or a serious engagement with German imperial culture.