Love and Other Thought Experiments Audiobook Libro.fm

Description

This impressive debut novel longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize takes its premise and inspiration from ten of the bestknown thought experiments in philosophythe whatifs of philosophical investigationand uses them to talk about love in a wholly unique way

Married couple Rachel and Eliza are considering having a child Rachel wants one desperately and Eliza thinks she does too but she cant quite seem to wrap her head around the idea When Rachel wakes up screaming one night and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there Eliza initially sees it as a cry for attention But Rachel is adamant She knows it sounds crazybut she also knows its true As a scientist Eliza is skeptical Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question

What follows is a uniquely imaginative sequence of ten interconnecting episodeseach from a different characters perspectiveinspired by some of the bestknown thought experiments in philosophy Together they form a sparkling philosophical tale of love lost and found across the universe