Impeerium - Christian Kracht

Empire, the fourth novel by Swiss author Christian Kracht (b. 1966), tells the story of August Engelhardt (1875-1919), a radical vegetarian, bearded nudist, who moves to a German colony in present-day Papua New Guinea to live on nothing but coconuts and sunshine - to realize a utopia that would redeem of all humanity, far from the destructive European civilization that stands on the threshold of modern times, as well as the catastrophes of World War I and II.