Published in 1995 by Harcourt Brace & Company
"Umberto Eco, why you so crazy?"
Boom, there's my review.
This is the story of Roberto, a young man who gets shipwrecked on a boat and can't swim to shore. He finds rare animals, crazy companions (real and imagined), begins a novel, writes letters to his true love, and in the end goes just a little bit insane.
My favorite part is where he tries to be a stone. Yes, you read that correctly, a stone.
While growing up in war-torn areas of Europe, Roberto accidentally angers Cardinal Richelieu and is forced on an expedition to learn how to tell what longitude one is at while sailing at sea. His ship fails and to save his sanity he begins writing letters to his beloved Lilia.
Quotes:
"If there Roberto had sensed a world now without any center, made up only of perimeters, here he felt himself truly in the most extreme and most lost of peripheries; because , if there was a center it lay before him, and he was its immobile satellite."
". . . there are people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard love talked about."
Rating: ***
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