The Island of the Day Before

"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

"A masterpiece... intellectually stimulating and dramatically intriguing." - Chicago Tribune

"A story both thought provoking and surprisingly humorous." - USA Today

"Umberto Eco... is the last of the great 20th century polymathic fabulists in the tradition of Joyce and Nabokov and Borges." - The Wall Street Journal