Critiques en avant-premièreAldous Huxley

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.

As an acclaimed novelist, Miles Fanning has grown accustomed to the attentions of fawning admirers. Yet little prepares him for the determination of the gauche Pamela Tarn, who resolves to enter not only his world, but also his bed. Initially repelled by the enormity of the age gap between them, Fanning vows never to acquiesce, and resorts to his most boorish behaviour in an attempt to break his hold on her. Yet as they are drawn inexorably together, they embark upon a tempestuous – and ultimately destructive – love affair. This satirical novella sees the author of Brave New World turning his characteristic humour and keen observation to the dual notions of obsession and control.