Island
Publisher: Vintage
Published: September 5, 2002
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780099422327
First sentence: There are times even now, when I awake at four o'clock in the morning with the terrible fear that I have overslept; when I imagine that my father is waiting for me in the room below the darkened stairs or that the shorebound men are tossing pebbles against my window while blowing their hands and stomping their feet impatiently on the frozen steadfast earth.