To support his family, a man submits himself to a solo science experiment in the High Andes.
'Absorbing, haunting and intellectually engaging throughout, with a gut-punch denouement.' - The Financial Times
Your business is dead. It seems like a deal - leave your family behind in Prague for a year, isolate yourself in a research station in the Andes, and come home with a fortune. With a treatise on black holes for company, Jakob settles in at altitude. The air is thin. Strangers pass by on dangerous pilgrimage while his young wife and kids take life in his mind. In mountain starkness, the big questions take shape - like what happens to love inside a black hole?
'Ably translated from the original Czech by Hana Sklenkova, The Fifth Dimension is a weighty and at times challenging read, its themes nothing less than life, death, the universe and love. It's absorbing, haunting and intellectually engaging throughout, with a gut-punch denouement.' - James Lovegrove, The Financial Times
'Never less than thoroughly compelling... This alliance between dry style and colourful subject creates in the novel a glorious uncertainty which propels the reader through a narrative... Beautifully balanced - as any novel, science fictional or otherwise, should be.' - Dan Hartland, Vector
'I loved it: simple as that. I started reading thinking I'd start with a few chapters and pace it over a week or two, but I found I couldn't stop. A potent and haunting novel of black holes, solitude and the sublime, it is never less than immensely readable and absorbing.' Adam Roberts, winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel & the John W. Campbell Award.
