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The Tesseract

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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  • "Tesseract"@it
  • "Tesseract"

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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."@en
  • "Il y a le jeune marin Sean et le vieux gangster Pepe. Il y a aussi Rosa la médecin. Ils vont se rencontrer aux Philippines. Mais ce qui est important, c'est le climat que réussit à créer l'auteur, climat d'angoisse dont on se souvient."
  • "A novel on random violence featuring a lucky criminal and an unlucky bystander. Set in Manila, it begins with a quarrel in which an English smuggler shoots a Filipino gangster. The gangster's men chase the smuggler, who takes refuge in a private home. A shootout follows, in the course of which a woman is killed while the smuggler escapes."
  • "Een man wordt bedreigd door de onderwereld van Manilla."
  • "In an abandoned hotel on the wrong side of town, a British sailor prepares to meet the gangster who runs the Manila docklands. The sheets on his bed are stained with blood, the 'phone lines are dead, and somebody has screwed a steel plate over the spyhole above his head ... The first story in this collection from the author of THE BEACH."@en

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  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Black dog"@it
  • "Black dog"
  • "Tesserakt"
  • "Tesseract"
  • "Manila : roman"
  • "De tessaract"
  • "Perro negro en Manila"@es
  • "Perro negro en Manila"
  • "The Tesseract"@en
  • "The Tesseract"
  • "Kelev shaḥor"
  • "Dördüncü boyut"
  • "The tesseract"
  • "The tesseract"@en
  • "Black Dog"
  • "Manila Roman"
  • "Manila : Roman"
  • "Тессеракт"
  • "Krzyżościan"@pl
  • "Tesseract : roman"@da

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