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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief romantic content in some of the dream-worlds
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate philosophical depth: the dreams ask quiet but profound questions about memory, choice, and the nature of time
What this book is about
Alan Lightman's lyrical novel imagines the young Albert Einstein having a series of dreams during the spring of 1905, each depicting a world where time operates according to different physical laws — a world where time flows backward, where time stands still in certain places, where cause and effect are reversed. A meditation on time, physics, and the human experience of living within its constraints, written in spare, beautiful prose.
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