Island of the Day Before - Couverture rigide

Umberto, Eco

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0436202700 ISBN 13 : 9780436202704

Editeur : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1995

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"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)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0436202700
• ISBN 13: 9780436202704
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 513