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Original Title:	The Tesseract
ISBN:	1573221090 (ISBN13: 9781573221092)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Philippines

The Tesseract

Alex Garland

Paperback | Pages: 273 pages

Rating: 3.22 | 5792 Users | 265 Reviews

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Title	:	The Tesseract
Author	:	Alex Garland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 273 pages
Published	:	January 25th 1999 by Riverhead Hardcover (first published August 11th 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Contemporary

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The Tesseract by Alex Garland is a novel that lets the reader wonder at his own insignificance. It is a theme that's already been implanted there, in the modern reader’s sophisticated brain, by Voltaire, and made new again by this generation’s collective and personal psyche, which is quite enormous/ambitious in scope. It’s no travesty to say that the society of 2011 is somewhat the intended dream of our future from way before the millennium--that is, we are living the 2011 version according to 1999, the very oracular year. There is an omnipresent ghost that hovers above it all, called Globalization, and this specter is felt everywhere: from the smallest villages of Thailand to the most industrialized cosmopolitan cities of the U.S. This current feeling had been hinted at way before it even got here.

Alex Garland is a remarkable writer. He says that there is in life, in his novel, “something… you are not equipped to understand.” The Tesseract is "[that] thing unraveled, but not the thing itself.” (249) This conclusion is reached only after having read the three distinct vignettes which finally come together in the impressive fourth act. Cohesiveness is found once all stories are put together, like a jigsaw puzzle. The three stories are completely different from one another in tone and style, though the writer’s voice is identifiable & easy to read (but it strays from the comprehensible by oftentimes entering the realm of the poetic).

This writer has very little to hide: he is definitely more about exposing secrets than hiding them (as opposed to countless other great modern British novels, including Ishiguru’s Never Let Me Go, Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty or anything Julian Barnes). The Tesseract is a terrific Masterpiece.

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This was a lot more interesting than I'd expected. I thought it was going to be grim, gory, with some Hemingway machismo and a bit of poverty tourism. It's actually far more intelligent than that, experimenting with story techniques, particularly chronology and points of view, but not in an obscure, detracting way. It's very readable and clear. The characters and settings are all well formed. The philosophical questions are asked very softly and subtly.

I have no idea what I just read, to be honest. If someone asked me to give a short summary of this book, I wouldn't be able to give even one sentence. There are multiple stories within this novel: one takes place in just one night, starts with an American named Sean shooting one of the big mafia bosses in Manila and his bodyguard. Sean is then being chased by two other bodyguards, ends up holding a young mother of two, Rosa, hostage, and all that is being witnessed by two street kids, Vincente

Interesting book.What I liked: the momentum/pace (of the first section especially), the details of the characters, the loose ends/non-sequiturs in the plot, the fact that the book takes an action-movie-esque setup and deconstructs it as a sort of literary character study/metaphysical musing on meaninglessness.What I didn't like: the pacing is uneven, the characters are often too pat and don't have realistic rough edges (and they felt very 'Western' in some of their speech/thought, most

The Tesseract by Alex Garland is a novel that lets the reader wonder at his own insignificance. It is a theme that's already been implanted there, in the modern readers sophisticated brain, by Voltaire, and made new again by this generations collective and personal psyche, which is quite enormous/ambitious in scope. Its no travesty to say that the society of 2011 is somewhat the intended dream of our future from way before the millennium--that is, we are living the 2011 version according to

Despite the fact that almost nothing good happens to any of the characters in the book, I really enjoyed reading "The Tesseract." The intertwined narratives of the mafia, family, street kids, and psychologist aren't exactly subtle, but each one had something powerful. Sometimes all the elements lost a little of that power as Alex Garland pushed them together into one conclusion. However, overall I definitely liked this book and, as it was the first of Garland's that I've read, I'll have to seek

Tesseract a four-dimensional hypercube with all equal sides and right angles; the author includes in the definition the unraveling of same. This book is three separate tales, taking place over the span of both a few hours and several years. The first involves an emissary for a smuggler who is behind on his protection payments, awaiting the arrival of an unhappy enforcer in a Manila hotel room. The second deals with a young doctor, a happily married mother of two who, nonetheless, mourns a lost

Set in the Philippines, The Tesseract pretends to be some action thriller novel that takes the reader through the lives of various people. It was a largely forgetful book. The protagonist, I think his name was Simon (see? I can't even remember) was bland. Every other character was bland too. Thankfully the Philippines was given some life in this book. Garland nicely described the scenery here, and he doesn't sugar coat it as to make it sound ridiculous.The plot was really dumb. The climax wasn't