The Island of Yesterday (umberto Eco's Works Series)
by H
About This Novel
A brain-burning version of "Robinson Crusoe", an erudite version of "Don Quixote", and an exquisite version of "The Three Musketeers". The whole story is a mixture of fiction and reality, a mixture of truth and falsehood, and is wonderful. In the hot summer of 1643, a merchant ship "Amaryllis" with a secret mission to find the location of the 180th longitude line was wrecked somewhere in the South Pacific. Roberto, the only survivor on the ship, was a young man who suffered from hypochondriasis, paranoia, photophobia, and could not swim. After being shipwrecked, he was washed aboard another abandoned ship, the Daphne. Roberto relied on the remaining food, fruits, vegetables, and poultry on the ship to survive. While waiting for death, he could only pass the time by writing love letters-and memories, which eventually evolved into novels. Through these writings, the author Eco explains to readers the first half of Roberto's life - the battle for the city of Casale that affected the whole of Europe (the Holy Roman Empire, France, Spain, and the Church all appeared), the spy wars between various countries for the purpose of seeking the secret of longitude, the fierce confrontation between faith and science in that century...
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