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After a violent storm in the South Pacific (the year is 1643), Roberto della Griva finds himself 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.
In this fascinating, lyrical tale, Umberto Eco tells of an international race to establish the Punto Fijo of a young dreamer searching for love and meaning; and of a most amazing old Jesuit who, with his clocks and maps, has plumbed the secrets of longitudes, the four moons of Jupiter, and the Flood.
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Shipwrecks, Adventure stories, Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, historical, general, Ficción, Naufragios, Naufrages, Roman italien, Littérature italienne, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, Italian fiction, New York Times reviewed, Translations into English, Jesuits, Novela, Novela italiana, Literatura italiana, Knights and knighthoodPlaces
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L'Ile Du Jour D'Avant
January 21, 1998, Livre de Poche
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The Island of the Day Before
March 1, 1996, Vintage
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L'Île du jour d'avant
February 14, 1996, Grasset, Grasset and Fasquelle
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The island of the day before
1995, Harcourt Brace & Co.
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Las isla del dia de antes
1995, Editorial Lumen, S.A., Lectorum Pubns
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"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
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En el verano de 1643 y en los mares del Sur, un joven piamontés, Roberto de la Grive, arriba como náufrago a una nave desierta. La nave está llena de animales desconocidos y de extrañas máquinas y artilugios, y ante ella, próxima e inalcanzable (no sólo, descubriremos después, en el espacio, sino también en el tiempo) una isla de ensueño. Roberto escribe cartas a la 'Señora'; a través de las cuales se adivina poco a poco su pasado: duelos, asedios, lances amorosos, alambicadas disputas de salón. Se trata, de hecho, de la lenta y traumática iniciación al mundo de la nueva ciencia, las razones de estado, las redes de espionaje de Mazarino y Richelieu, la guerra de los treinta años, en suma, a un cosmos en el que la tierra ha dejado de ser para muchos el centro del universo. En este 'Mar de la Inocencia' nada es inocente, y Roberto lo sabe desde el principio, porque ha llegado a estas Antípodas para resolver -sin personalmente desearlo- el misterio por el cual forcejean las nuevas potencias de la época: el secreto del Punto Fijo.
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