The Tesseract (novel)
{{Short description|Novel by Alex Garland}}
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| author = Alex Garland
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| publisher = Viking Press (UK)
Riverhead Books (US)
| release_date = 1998 (UK), 1999 (US)
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| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 226
| isbn = 0-670-87016-1
| oclc= 40360022
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The Tesseract is a novel by Alex Garland. It was initially published by Viking Press in 1998.{{cite web|title=The Tesseract by Alex Garland|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243257.The_Tesseract|website=Goodreads|publisher=goodreads.com|accessdate=2 November 2016}}{{cite web|last1=KAKUTANI|first1=MICHIKO|title=3 Story Lines and a 4th Dimension|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/14/daily/garland-book-review.html|website=The New York Times|accessdate=2 November 2016|date=February 16, 1999}}
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.{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}
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.
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Category:British novels adapted into films
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Category:Nonlinear narrative novels
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