Aldous Huxley - A Ilha

Aldous Huxley's final novel, and utopian counterpoint to "Brave New World," introduces us to Pala, an island where an ideal society, governed by beliefs based on Buddhism and Hinduism, has flourished for one hundred and twenty years, inevitably attracting the envy of the surrounding world.

A conspiracy is underway to invade oil-rich Pala, and events precipitate when Will Farnaby, initially an agent of the conspirators, arrives on the island. It is probably Huxley's most disillusioned book, and it contains the firm conviction that, amidst the greed and avarice of men, peaceful communities like Pala are doomed. Published in 1962, Island is a mirror that allows modern man to see all that is rotten in society and in himself.