BOOKS: A WEEK IN BOOKS

The Independent (London, England) | July 6, 2002 | Copyright

BLAME IT on Plato, and his myth of Atlantis. For the past 2,500 years, islands - either real and imaginary - have shimmered like a dream of hope and happiness on the horizon of the Western mind. Show us a smallish island, or simply invent one, and we'll instantly drum up fantasies of the good life or the perfect commonwealth. The vision of an island clarifies what we desire - whether the flawless state debated in More's Utopia and Shakepeare's Tempest, or merely the eight recordings most likely to soothe a stranded soul. Which (adult) novel has colonised British readers most successfully…

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