'Every age gets the classics it deserves. I hope we deserve The Island of the Day Before . . . This novel belongs 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


'No comparable book has ever existed .. . the exuberance of the narrative and the 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 skilful parade of recent literary theory and history of science' The Times

'A great feast of words' Times Literary Supplement