The Tesseract
Author: Alex Garland
Alex Garland’s international bestseller, The Beach, received extraordinary praise, and his writing was compared to Hemingway, Greene, Conrad, Golding, and Huxley. His new novel, The Tesseract, is a bold departure from The Beach, and demonstrates the enormous range of Garland’s talent.The Tesseract is a Chinese puzzle of a novel, beautifully written and suspensefully crafte….Read More
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