Praise

“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