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The Tesseract by Alex GarlandIn the third and final part of this impressive novel, Alex Garland defines a tesseract as both `a three dimensional object' and `a four dimensional object - a hypercube - unravelled'.Published 10 January, 1998 
In the third and final part of this impressive novel, Alex Garland defines a tesseract as both `a three dimensional object' and `a four dimensional object - a hypercube - unravelled'. And a tesseract is, in fact, what we are presented with in this work. Given three stories, each based around the lives of characters living in contemporary Manila, we are tantalised by the build-up to a shocking triple murder. As the histories of Sean, JoJo, Rosa, Alfredo, Totoy and Vincente are recounted, some more obliquely than others, we are given both the background to the murders and a glimpse into Garland's particularly bleak reading of the human condition. Randomly intersecting, the stories of these characters are in turn moving, illuminating, shocking and perplexing. With its meticulously constructed plot and its evocative prose, The Tesseract is a worthy successor to Garland's well-received debut novel, The Beach. Virginia Maxwell is a freelance reviewer based in Melbourne. C. 1998 Thorpe-Bowker and contributors More from Fiction Book Reviews
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