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 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.
language: English
title: The Tesseract
titlecomplete: The Tesseract
genres: Crime, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Asia, Thriller, Science Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 6608
places: The Philippines
publisher: Unabridged Library Edition