Binding: Hardcover
Description: A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker Winner Sushila Devi Award 2023 Winner Atta Galatta 2023 for Best Fiction Winner Aut Her 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 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 The Lost Words and Underland One 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. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land as inventive as Louisa Hall's Speak and as visionary as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas Everything the Light Touches is 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. Shai 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. Evelyn 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. Linnaeus 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. Goethe 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. Drawn richly from scientific and botanical ideas Everything the Light Touches is 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. Everything the Light Touches 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.
Title: Everything The Light Touches A Novel
Author(s): Pariat Janice
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063210042
Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/25/2022