by Alex Garland · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140283532
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«The Tesseract» is the suspense novel by Alex Garland, published by Penguin in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Set in the Philippines, the novel weaves together three stories spanning three generations: gangsters flee through the streets of Manila, middle-class parents put their children to bed in the suburbs, and a wealthy psychologist studies the dreams of two street children. A plot that contrasts science and religion, destiny and will.
Published in 1999, it is the work that followed «The Beach», Alex Garland's previous novel.
For fans of Alex Garland, author of «The Beach», and for readers of contemporary suspense with interwoven stories.
Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author and filmmaker. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).
