{"product_id":"everything-the-light-touches-paperback","title":"Everything the Light Touches - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanice Pariat\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker - Winner, Sushila Devi Award 2023 - Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best Fiction - Winner, AutHer Award 2023 for Fiction - Finalist, Tata Live Award for Fiction 2023 - Longlisted, 2023 JCB Prize for Literature - Shortlisted, Valley of Words Awards 2023 for English Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wise, funny, touching, wide-ranging, deep-delving; whip-smart dialogue and graceful, paced sentences, thousands upon thousands of them. Written by a novelist with the eye of a poet, and a poet with the narrative powers of a novelist, this is a book that needed to be written, that tells true things, and is entirely its own being.\"--Robert Macfarlane, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Words\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUnderland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's \u003cem\u003eThe Inheritance of Loss\u003c\/em\u003e, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's \u003cem\u003eCloud Cuckoo Land\u003c\/em\u003e, as inventive as Louisa Hall's \u003cem\u003eSpeak, \u003c\/em\u003e and as visionary as David Mitchell's \u003cem\u003eCloud Atlas, Everything the Light Touches \u003c\/em\u003eis Janice Pariat's magnificent epic of travelers, of discovery, of time, of science, of human connection, and of the impermanent nature of the universe and life itself--a bold and brilliant saga that unfolds through the adventures and experiences of four intriguing characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShai is a young woman in modern India. Lost and drifting, she travels to her country's Northeast and rediscovers, through her encounters with indigenous communities, ways of being that realign and renew her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn is a student of science in Edwardian England. Inspired by Goethe's botanical writings, she leaves Cambridge on a quest to wander the sacred forests of the Lower Himalayas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinnaeus, a botanist and taxonomist who famously declared \"God creates; Linnaeus organizes,\" sets off on an expedition to an unfamiliar world, the far reaches of Lapland in 1732. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoethe is a philosopher, writer, and one of the greatest minds of his age. While traveling through Italy in the 1780s, he formulates his ideas for \"The Metamorphosis of Plants,\" a little-known, revelatory text that challenges humankind's propensity to reduce plants--and the world--into immutable parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn richly from scientific and botanical ideas, \u003cem\u003eEverything the Light Touches \u003c\/em\u003eis a swirl of ever-expanding themes: the contrasts between modern India and its colonial past, urban and rural life, capitalism and centuries-old traditions of generosity and gratitude, script and \"song and stone.\" Pulsating at its center is the dichotomy between different ways of seeing, those that fix and categorize and those that free and unify. Pariat questions the imposition of fixity--of our obsession to place permanence on plants, people, stories, knowledge, land--where there is only movement, fluidity, and constant transformation. \"To be still,\" says a character in the book, \"is to be without life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEverything the Light Touches\u003c\/em\u003e brings together, with startling and playful novelty, people and places that seem, at first, removed from each other in time and place. Yet as it artfully reveals, all is resonance; all is connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.02 x 5.33 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764944830752,"sku":"9780063210110","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/46506b108c757f9aeb1eb860ba9252b3.webp?v=1780258438","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/everything-the-light-touches-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}