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Country United Kingdom Publication date 1998 (UK), 1999 (US) Pages 226 Originally published 1998 Page count 226 Genres Fiction, Suspense | 3.2/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (paperback) ISBN 0-670-87016-1 Adaptations The Tesseract (2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publishers Viking Press (UK), Riverhead Books (US) Similar Alex Garland books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tesseract is a ficiton novel by Alex Garland. It was initially published by Viking Press in 1998.
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Overview
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, 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.
Adaptation
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.