Lightbreakers
'Compassionate and prismatic . . . my favourite kind of novel' (Chloe Benjamin, author of THE IMMORTALISTS)
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- 89,00 kr
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- 89,00 kr
Publisher Description
'Audaciously tackles life's most formative experiences: love and loss' RUMAAN ALAM, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
'Like walking down a hall of mirrors . . . Lightbreakers made me see things anew' LING MA, prize-winning author of Severance
'You will love this genre-busting book . . . A cross of literary fiction and sci-fi, it's also a beautiful meditation of grief, time, and love' SAMIN NOSTRAT, bestselling author of Salt Fat Acid Heat
Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, are happily married. But beneath the surface of their wedded bliss is a third rail: Serena, the lost child that Noah had with his ex-wife.
When Noah gets a call from an eccentric billionaire asking him to participate in a clandestine project aiming to unravel the secrets of time and consciousness, the couple agrees to relocate to the Janus Lab, deep in the desert, and Noah finds himself drawn into a dangerous kind of time travel that could result in seeing Serena again.
But Janus lab is not what it seems, and soon Noah and Maya are drawn into its dangerous web, where they must grapple with their pasts and plumb the depths of human connection to find their way back to one another.
'Compassionate and prismatic . . . my favourite kind of novel' CHLOE BENJAMIN, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists
'Both gripping and deeply felt, as breath-taking as it is mind-bending . . . it exists in a category all its own' RACHEL KHONG, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A California couple's marriage is put to the test when they take part in a dodgy experiment in Gabel's satisfying sophomore novel (after The Ensemble). Noah, a physicist, marries artist Maya after his previous marriage to fellow scientist Eileen broke apart following the death of their toddler, Serena, from a rare heart disease. Noah's newfound happiness with Maya is upended by a billionaire's invitation to take part in the secretive Janus Project, an experiment on human consciousness that allows its subject to "reexperience" memories "with all his present self's knowledge" once he enters a "time bath." Maya, who's stalled in her own career, joins Noah at Janus's isolated research site in the desert, where he dives into the work, especially once he's able to interact with Serena in the time baths. Feeling abandoned, Maya turns her thoughts to her ex, Ren. After Noah recruits Eileen to join the project, things spin out of control, driving the plot to a surprising final twist. Along the way, Gabel explores the characters' previous relationships with a great deal of nuance, showing how Noah and Maya each struggle to let go of the past, as when Maya comes to see Ren as a valuable muse for her art, though their relationship was clearly toxic. Gabel hits a winning combination in this tale of modern love and time travel.
