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Details

Description

1. 326 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "From 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 Nurul 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 sensitive character, from a small town in undivided India, 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. At 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. When approached to contribute to Pakistan's nuclear weapons project, he declines, recalling the catastrophe of India's Partition, thus making enemies of the political and military establishments. Meanwhile, a contingent of physicists begins a smear campaign, claiming that Nurul Islams's contribution to the unification theory was plagiarized from Rosenfeld. All these events link together and converge upon Sakina Begum who, smarting from her husband's betrayal, unwittingly commits a betrayal of her own. Everything that had worked together as though preordained since his childhood to take him to the pinnacle of scientific achievement suddenly falls apart. An intimate and intelligent account of love, honour, guilt and genius, Everything There Is gives us an engaging portrait of a traditional, spiritual man facing the onslaught of inescapable forces."--

Subject

1. Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018. > Fiction
2. Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018
3. Muslim scientists > Fiction
4. Physicists > Fiction
5. Adultery > Fiction
6. Islam and science > Fiction
7. Religion and science > Fiction
8. Guilt > Fiction
9. Honor > Fiction
10. Love > Fiction
11. Adultery
12. Guilt
13. Honor
14. Islam and science
15. Love
16. Muslim scientists
17. Physicists
18. Religion and science
19. Non-consensual non-monogamy
20. Non-monogamy

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. Novels.

Call number

1. JFD 23-2046

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Vassanji, M. G., author.

Title

1. Everything there is : a novel / M.G. Vassanji.

Publisher

1. [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, [2023]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Other form:

1. Online version: Vassanji, M. G. Everything there is. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2023 0385683812 9780385683814 (OCoLC)1373395987

ISBN

1. 9780385683807 hardcover
2. 0385683804 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFD 23-2046