Fülszöveg
The year is 1643. Roberta, a young nobÍíeiiiaii,^u^ves war, the Basti^ exile and shipwreck 4is he voyages to a Pacific island ^^^ftling the date meridian* There he waits now, alone mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by
ut^c^éS %efs from the island b^nd: the of ^e
d^ jetiire. If reach hy úmt - and Íús miftirtÉties
j^ut first he must learn to swim
ThiSUingly plotted, engrossing, funny and moving, The^lfstami^ oftMDay Bßfore is Umberto Eco's finest novel to date.
! 'Every ag© gets the classic it deserves. I hope- we deserve Thi j Island of the Day Before This novel l^förigs in the grand ^ tradition of Swift's Gulliver's Traveli, J^nson's %isseias and j Voltaire's Candide we are leftf energised, exhilarated by the j sheer sensoty excitement of the music's teili®^ New York Times Baojk Review
'No compafable book has ever existed The exuberance of the narrative and the sheer sumptuousness of the language possesse§^ a precision for which everything in Eco's earlier...
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Fülszöveg
The year is 1643. Roberta, a young nobÍíeiiiaii,^u^ves war, the Basti^ exile and shipwreck 4is he voyages to a Pacific island ^^^ftling the date meridian* There he waits now, alone mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by
ut^c^éS %efs from the island b^nd: the of ^e
d^ jetiire. If reach hy úmt - and Íús miftirtÉties
j^ut first he must learn to swim
ThiSUingly plotted, engrossing, funny and moving, The^lfstami^ oftMDay Bßfore is Umberto Eco's finest novel to date.
! 'Every ag© gets the classic it deserves. I hope- we deserve Thi j Island of the Day Before This novel l^förigs in the grand ^ tradition of Swift's Gulliver's Traveli, J^nson's %isseias and j Voltaire's Candide we are leftf energised, exhilarated by the j sheer sensoty excitement of the music's teili®^ New York Times Baojk Review
'No compafable book has ever existed The exuberance of the narrative and the sheer sumptuousness of the language possesse§^ a precision for which everything in Eco's earlier writing had prepared us, but equally a panache for which nothing had'
GilbertAdsijr, Sunddfy Times
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f 'Vintage Ecd"Full of verbal conjuring both an enjoyable feble ' , -^nd a skilful parade of recent Uterary theo|y and hism^ of sconce' ' 'The Times '' ''
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