Next Door to Ourselves

About this book

Next Door to Ourselves begins with a feeling everyone has had and nobody can explain: the flash of déjà vu, the dream of the life not lived, the sense that somewhere a different version of the day went differently. A novelist named Farah, who has had powerful déjà vu all her life and collects the world's old stories of doubles and other selves, asks the narrator whether there is anything in it, and the narrator sets out to find the answer in the company of his usual circle, an astrophysicist, a sceptical physicist, a graduate student, and, new to this volume, a quantum physicist who believes, sincerely and for good reasons, that the universe splits.