The Tesseract

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The Beach
'furiously intelligent"
"reads like a comet"
"impressive"
"one great book"
"truly awesome"
"exceptional'-
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"fascinating" "riveting"
"taut, exotic'
British praise for The Tesseract ^^
"His exotic locations and metaphy'sical preoccupations have led Garland to be compared with Grahaitf Greene. His cold eye and menaced sense of the sheer strangeness df the world bring him just as close to J. G. Ballard. . . . The Tesseract is as spooky and compelling as it is thoughtful."
"A brave, ambitious novel which proves that Garland is an important writer capable of great sensitivity and intelligence."
"Bravura storytelling A tense, jittery but oddly consoling read, The Tesseract proves defiantly that Garland's far from a one-hit wonder."
"A brilliantly structured, surprisingly compassionate novel, disguised as an exotic, speedy thriller. Astonishing."
"Laden with tension . . . moments of surprising sweetness."
"To nick one of his phrases in this... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The Beach
'furiously intelligent"
"reads like a comet"
"impressive"
"one great book"
"truly awesome"
"exceptional'-
p;? ] /J
"fascinating" "riveting"
"taut, exotic'
British praise for The Tesseract ^^
"His exotic locations and metaphy'sical preoccupations have led Garland to be compared with Grahaitf Greene. His cold eye and menaced sense of the sheer strangeness df the world bring him just as close to J. G. Ballard. . . . The Tesseract is as spooky and compelling as it is thoughtful."
"A brave, ambitious novel which proves that Garland is an important writer capable of great sensitivity and intelligence."
"Bravura storytelling A tense, jittery but oddly consoling read, The Tesseract proves defiantly that Garland's far from a one-hit wonder."
"A brilliantly structured, surprisingly compassionate novel, disguised as an exotic, speedy thriller. Astonishing."
"Laden with tension . . . moments of surprising sweetness."
"To nick one of his phrases in this astonishing book, Alex Garland's writing is as beautiful and rare as his own fingerprint. . . . Hornby, Ishiguro and Ballard all admire his work. You should too."
"An extraordinarily powerful and immensely literary book [which] borders perilously close to the edge of brilliant. . . . Here we have a profoundly intelligent and beautifully complex tale of human emotion: of the error of confidence; of the fickleness of fate; of the lottery of survival." '
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"Is Alex Garland the new, Graham Greene?_:Sfter The Tesseraa, the question needs to be asked^ As^ lus brilliant debut novel, The Beach^ there is a^powerful narrative driise, exotic locations that, unfold like a corrupt and.mjr^lerious flower, and a moody intelligence that holds i^e^^iliing together''
—J. G. ,Ballard', ^ ^ ^ ¦ author of fmpij-e ^ tie Sig I
'¦ ' Alex Garland's national and interriational-besit-,seller The Beach received extraordinary praise /"iliçre and throughout Europe and vvas the winfier • Britain's prestigious Betty Trask Avvard, for a liristnoverby a writer under the age pf thirty-"ÎWe. • Reviewers compared Garland to Hemi&gway, Conrad, Golding, aind Huxley, aniong others. The Washington Poit called The Beach "a book that moves v«th the kind of speed and grace many older writers only daydream about." Garland's new novel is ' a b"bld departure, ând it (iemonstrates the enormous range of his talents.
Beautifully written and suspensefuUy crafted, The Tesseract takes place in die Philippines aitd fol-lows three sets of characters .whose fates are inter-' twined in a deadly chase that is set in 'motion ihrou^ a imsunderstanding., Sean is an inexp^ri-enced British merchant seaman waiting to keep ân ^ 4ppointment with a Filipino mafia lord and his henâi-¦i moi in a seedy Manila hotel. Meanwhile, in die subuAs
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a mother puts her children to'bed and remembers h<;r first love on tlje backwater island where she grew up, and a wealthy psych<5logist stupes the dreams of a couple of abandoned street kids ^^ who' are drawndnto the wake of the gangsters' chase. , The Tessergpt is a story of personal tragedies th^ occur for no comprehensible reason, and investi-gi tes the ways in which we explain them, whether through religion, myth, psychology, or science. It b{ lances science against" religion, zaid our wills' against our fates, asking the elusiye question of -how we can make sense of events in a worlB wljere meaning lies beyond our gfasp. Heire is, a complex, . mature, and compassionate novel by an unusually gifted you^g writer who continues to astonish / with the scope of his vision and his uniietstanding of human nature. With The Tesseract, Garland fulfills K izuo Ishiguro's prediction:. "Mex Garland's The Bi aclu will he remembered the years as our
first gl^pse of a huge literary talent."
A [.ex Garland-is the author of the critically acclaimed'noi^ffel The Beach, vdnner pf Britain's
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