The year is 1643. Roberto,a young nobleman,survives war,the Bastille,exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now,alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne,separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before. If he could reach it,time - and his misfortunes - might be reversed. But first he must learn to swim...
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780749396664Number of pages: 528Weight: 362 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 31 mm
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No comparable book has ever existed... The exuberance of the narrative and sheer sumptuousness of the language possess a precision for which everything in Eco's earlier writing had prepared us,but equally a panache for which nothing hadVintage Eco...full of verbal conjuring: both an enjoyable fable and a skillful parade of recent literary theory and history of scienceA great feast of wordsEvery age gets the classics it deserves. I hope we deserve The Island of the Day Before...This novel belings in the great tradition of Swift's Gulliver's Travels,Johnson's Rasselas and Voltaire's Candide. We are left energized,exhilarated by the sheer sensory excitement of the music's telling.
Umberto Eco
A revered Italian author,academic,philosopher and critic,Umberto Eco was a true polymath with wide-ranging interests across fields of literature,semiotics,popular culture and gastronomy. A distinctive and eccentric figure who achieved cult status after the publication of his bestseller The Name of the Rose,his other works include Foucault's Pendulum,Baudolino,The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero.
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