Citation:
Notes:
Translated into German
Full Text
From the jacket:
With Properties of Light, the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem gives us “one of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and intellect... achingly beautiful, moving, and intriguing on every page” (Charles Johnson). This mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light. Caught in the entanglements of erotic and intellectual passion, three physicists grapple with mysteries of science as well as mysteries of the heart with consequences not even their finely honed intellects can predict. “Luminous, incendiary... Properties of Light is a novel of cool grace and dark lyricism, lit by the imaginative fire of physics and its improbable cosmologies” (New York Times Book Review).
- Feature article in The New York Times
- A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
- Honors in Fiction, Massachusetts Book Awards
“A mordant marvel.”
—John Leonard, Harper’s
“Luminous, incendiary... Properties of Light is a novel of cool grace and dark lyricism, lit by the imaginative fire of physics and its improbable cosmologies.”
—New York Times Book Review
”[Properties of Light] is a passionate love story rendered with dazzling intelligence... both an intricate moral tale and a meditation on the unsolvable mysteries of the human spirit.”
—Maureen Howard.”
“A marvelous book, full of light of its own. It is at once the most logical and most ecstatic fiction of our age.”
—Andrew Solomon
“One of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and intellect... achingly beautiful, moving, and intriguing on every page”
—Charles Johnson
