TY - BOOK AU - Umberto Eco TI - The Island of the Day Before SN - 9781448182206 AV - PQ4865.C6 U1 - 853.914 PB - Penguin Random House KW - Historical Fiction N2 - The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before. If he could reach it, time - and his misfortunes - might be reversed. But first he must learn to swim ER -