The Tesseract
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 1573227749 / Publisher: Riverhead Books, January 2000
The lives of three groups of peoplegangsters on the streets of Manila, middleclass suburban families, and street children and the psychologist studying themintertwine through three generations in the Philippines. Reprint.
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An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs and remembering her first love; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychiatrist who is studying their dreams. Alex Garland demonstrates the range of his extraordinary talents as a novelist in this national bestseller, a Chinese puzzle of a novel about three intersecting sets of characters in the Philippines.
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