An imaginary re-creation of Einstein\'s discovery of the nature of time, this novel takes readers through the young patent clerk\'s many Dreams depicting compelling conceptions of time.
In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence..
Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein\'s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world.
In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.
In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children.
In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over.
As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds.
A modern classic, Einstein\'s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics.
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An imaginary re-creation of Einstein\'s discovery of the nature of time, this novel takes readers through the young patent clerk\'s many Dreams depicting compelling conceptions of time
