Title : The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco - book

Summary :

It's the time of the Thirty Years' War. The young Piedmontese Roberto de La Grive finds himself enlisted in a dark affair that leads him to be shipwrecked in the Pacific, alone aboard a frigate abandoned by its crew, facing an unknown island. What is our castaway doing on his motionless boat? He writes love letters and confides his story to them, a true initiatory journey into the heart of the 17th century, that of new science and reason of State, waiting to finally reach this island so close and yet so far away. Because in this Sea of ​​Innocence, nothing is actually innocent and Roberto has known this from the beginning, he who had arrived at these antipodes (where men should have walked upside down) to try to solve a mystery that fascinated the time: the secret of the Fixed Point. Now it was this island that was this point, the island through which the 180th meridian passed, the date line, the one where from one meter to the next we go to the day before...

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