Alan Lightman
The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman’s first work of fiction in seven years.
Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme...
Can space be divided...
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, an inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty versus modern scientific discoveries pointing to the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world
As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a purely scientific view of the world. Even as a teenager, experimenting
...In poetic vignettes, Einstein's Dreams explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he
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