{"product_id":"everything-there-is-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Doubleday Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50916262576402,"sku":"9780385683838","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7afc8391-a91c-4c09-8ffc-2c4b0fa952a7.jpg?v=1738846053","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everything-there-is-9780385683838","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}