The Island of the Day Before
A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this astonishing intellectual journey by the author of Foucault's Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle). In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific leaves Roberto della Griva shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboard the Daphne, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, he discovers, but the crew is missing. As Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he looks back on various episodes from his life: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess mo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-547-56389-3
- EAN: 9780547563893
- Produktnummer: 27881696
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 530 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 892 KB
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