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Island of the Day Before
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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…
Additional information
| Weight | 0.365 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.3 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 528 |
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| Year Published | 1996-10-7 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0749396660 |
| About The Author | Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays. |
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 had |
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| Other text | Vintage Eco…full of verbal conjuring: both an enjoyable fable and a skillful parade of recent literary theory and history of science |
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