- Fiction, Physicists, Time, Dreams
A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.
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Contemplative, character-led, grave and intimate.
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Alan P. Lightman
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Xia Lin Han-ying, Er Ya
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Chinese, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780747513780
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