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Umberto ECO, The Island of the Day Before, Minerva fiction, 1997
Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
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 read it, time - and his misfortunes - might be reversed. But first he must learn to swim…
Thrillingly plotted, engrossing, funny and moving, "The Island of the Day Before" is Umberto Eco's finest novel to date.
