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Synopsis
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.
The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
...Elliptical and Rashomon-like in structure....Mr. Garland...proves in this novel that he can create odd, oddly sympathetic people with unexpected inner lives....a powerful if flawed novel, a novel that for all its lapses reconfirms Mr. Garland's prodigious and diverse talents.