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The Fifth Dimension
Martin Vopenka
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Description for The Fifth Dimension
Paperback. Translator(s): Sklenkova, Hana. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FL; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
A contemporary classic from the Czech Republic.
To support his family, a man submits himself to a solo science experiment in the High Andes. This is a cosmic adventure story of big ideas and murder.
Your business is dead. It seems like a deal: leave your family behind in Prague for a year, isolate yourself in a research station in the Andes, and come home with a fortune. With a treatise on black holes for company, Jakob settles in at altitude. The air is thin. Strangers pass by on dangerous pilgrimage while his young wife and kids take life in his mind. ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Barbican Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909954083
SKU
V9781909954083
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Martin Vopenka
The Jewish-Czech author Martin Vopěnka is one of the leading voices in world literature, writing with ‘with a deft and compellingly simple control of sentences that is reminiscent of both Kafka and Kundera’ – Choice. Martin Vopěnka was born in Prague in 1963. The son of the famous mathematician Petr Vopěnka, Martin studied Mathematics and Physics at the Czech ... Read more
Reviews for The Fifth Dimension
"Ably translated from the original Czech by Hana Sklenkova, The Fifth Dimension is a weighty and at times challenging read, its themes nothing less than life, death, the universe and love. It is absorbing, haunting and intellectually engaging throughout, with a gut-punch denouement." - James Lovegrove, The Financial Times