The Tesseract by Alex Garland

A darkly lyrical, tightly woven novel set in Manila that follows several interconnected characters — petty criminals, lovers and ordinary people — after a botched crime draws them into a spiral of violence, betrayal and unexpected compassion; through shifting viewpoints and a nonlinear structure it examines chance, moral ambiguity and how lives intersect across social and emotional distances, using a geometric metaphor to suggest hidden connections between time, perspective and fate.

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