{"product_id":"books-isola-del-giorno-prima-by-umberto-eco","title":"Isola Del Giorno Prima","description":"A profound and ingenious story artfully told . . . Renaissance battles, love poems, and sea journeys in the age of exploration. --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoberto della Griva is an Italian nobleman living in 1643. His mission is to travel the South Pacific and discover the means by which navigators can understand the mystery of longitude. After a violent storm, however, Roberto finds himself shipwrecked--on a ship. Swept from the \u003ci\u003eAmaryllis\u003c\/i\u003e, he has managed to pull himself aboard the \u003ci\u003eDaphne\u003c\/i\u003e, anchored in the bay of a beautiful island. The ship is fully provisioned, but the crew is missing. \u003cbr\u003eAs Roberto explores the different cabinets in the hold, he remembers chapters from his youth: Ferrante, his imaginary evil brother; the siege of Casale, that meaningless chess move in the Thirty Years' War in which he lost his father; and the lessons given him on fencing, blasphemy, and the writing of love letters. \u003ci\u003eThe Island of the Day Before\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating, lyrical tale about a young dreamer's search for love and meaning. \u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece . . . intellectually stimulating and dramatically intriguing. --Chicago Tribune \u003cbr\u003eA story both thought provoking and surprisingly humorous. \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eUmberto Eco . . . is the last of the great 20th century polymathic fabulists in the tradition of Joyce and Nabokov and Borges. \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUMBERTO ECO \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna and the bestselling author of numerous novels and collections of essays. He lives in Milan. \u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Italian by William Weaver\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480990015761,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788845223181.jpg?v=1777554029","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-isola-del-giorno-prima-by-umberto-eco","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}