The Tesseract (novel)

The Tesseract (novel)

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name = The Tesseract
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author = Alex Garland
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country = UK
language = English
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publisher = Viking
release_date = 1998
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media_type = Print (paperback)
pages = 226
isbn = ISBN 0-670-87016-1
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"The Tesseract" is a 1998 English-language novel by Alex Garland. The story intertwines the lives of Manila gangsters, mothers and street children. The novel chronicles numerous characters in non-linear storylines and explores themes of love, adultery, fate, violence, power, and choices. It is Garland's second novel.

The term 'tesseract' is used for the three-dimensional net of the four-dimensional hypercube rather than the hypercube itself. It is a metaphor for the characters' inability to understand the causes behind the events which shape their lives: they can only visualize the superficial world they inhabit.Fact|date=June 2007

The book was adapted into a film, "The Tesseract", which changed the setting to Bangkok. It was directed by Oxide Pang and starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Saskia Reeves.


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