{"product_id":"everything-there-is-isbn-9780385683838","title":"Everything There Is","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom two-time Giller Prize winner  M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest  and most celebrated writers, comes a  brilliant new novel that vividly examines  the seemingly incongruous worlds of  science, religion and desire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist,  professor at Imperial College, London, and  one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld theory, the  first step in a grand unification of forces and a  Theory of Everything. A family man profoundly  influenced by his pious father, Nurul is happily  married to Sakina Begum by an arranged marriage. They have three children. But when Nurul  travels to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to give a  public lecture at Harvard, he falls in love with a  graduate student, Hilary Chase.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the same time, Nurul Islam's outspoken,  philosophical views about the nature of physics  and God have earned him the ire of fundamentalist preachers in Pakistan. He makes enemies  of the political and military establishments  when he refuses to contribute to Pakistan's nuclear weapons project. Meanwhile, a contingent  of physicists begins a smear campaign, claiming  that Nurul Islams's contribution to the unification theory was plagiarized. All these events  converge upon Sakina Begum who, smarting from  her husband's betrayal, unwittingly commits a  betrayal of her own. Everything that has worked  together as though preordained since his childhood to take him to the pinnacle of scientific  achievement suddenly falls apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exceptionally wise and intimate account  of love, honour, guilt and genius, \u003ci\u003eEverything  There Is\u003c\/i\u003e gives us an engaging portrait of a traditional, spiritual man facing the onslaught of  inescapable forces.\"[The book's] unvarnished prose and hypnotic intensity . . . make for an enthralling primer for novel writing itself.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vassanji brings together complex strands and unifies them into a compelling chronicle, a symmetry of ideas and emotions, a tale told with sensitivity and grace and a light touch. A must read for those who love literature and care about people and personalities shunned by the powers-that-be.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Shaukat Ajmeri, author of\u003ci\u003e Keepers of the Faith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A biography masquerading as a novel dipping into the realm of speculative fiction is a hat trick few authors can pull off. Yet . . . Vassanji manages to do just that.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinarily moving novel that leaves the reader with a deeper understanding of our increasingly volatile world. This is Vassanji's masterpiece.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Susan Zakin, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Plague Years\u003c\/i\u003eM.G. VASSANJI won the Giller Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe In-Between World of Vikram Lall\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for \u003ci\u003eA Place Within: Rediscovering India\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Assassin's Song\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and his novel \u003ci\u003eNostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist in Canada Reads 2017. Vassanji lives in Toronto, Ontario.","brand":"Anchor Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305485324517,"sku":"NP9780385683838","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385683838.jpg?v=1767726491","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/everything-there-is-isbn-9780385683838","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}