Island of the Day Before
  • Published: 1 October 1996
  • ISBN: 9780749396664
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $32.99

Island of the Day Before

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‘Every age gets the classics it deserves. I hope we deserve The Island of the Day Before’ – New York Times Book Review

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...
  • Published: 1 October 1996
  • ISBN: 9780749396664
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $32.99
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Umberto Eco

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.

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Praise for Island of the Day Before

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

Sunday Times

Vintage Eco...full of verbal conjuring: both an enjoyable fable and a skillful parade of recent literary theory and history of science

The Times

A great feast of words

Times Literary Supplement

Every 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.

New York Times Book Review