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Alex Garland's international bestseller, The Beach, received extraordinary praise, and his writing was compared to Hemingway, Greene, Conrad, Golding, and Huxley. His new novel, The Tesseract, is a bold departure from The Beach, and demonstrates the enormous range of Garland's talent. The Tesseract is a Chinese puzzle of a novel, beautifully written and suspensefully crafted. Set in the Philippines and spanning three generations, it follows three stories whose characters' fates are intertwined: gangsters on a chase through the streets of Manila; middle-class parents putting their children to bed in the suburbs; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychologist who is studying their dreams. It is a novel that balances science against religion, and our wills against our fates, asking the ever elusive question of where meaning lies.
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The Tesseract, Alex Garland
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- Released
- 1998
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- Title
- The Tesseract
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alex Garland
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 225
- ISBN10
- 0140283536
- ISBN13
- 9780140283532
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary Fiction, Suspense, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Asia, Violence, Mafia, Philippines, Epistles
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- The Tesseract
- Rating
- 3.1 out of 5
- Description
- Alex Garland's international bestseller, The Beach, received extraordinary praise, and his writing was compared to Hemingway, Greene, Conrad, Golding, and Huxley. His new novel, The Tesseract, is a bold departure from The Beach, and demonstrates the enormous range of Garland's talent. The Tesseract is a Chinese puzzle of a novel, beautifully written and suspensefully crafted. Set in the Philippines and spanning three generations, it follows three stories whose characters' fates are intertwined: gangsters on a chase through the streets of Manila; middle-class parents putting their children to bed in the suburbs; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychologist who is studying their dreams. It is a novel that balances science against religion, and our wills against our fates, asking the ever elusive question of where meaning lies.