- Published: 1 October 1996
- ISBN: 9780749396664
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 528
- RRP: $29.99
Island Of The Day Before
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- Published: 1 October 1996
- ISBN: 9780749396664
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 528
- RRP: $29.99
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