On Saturday, November 4, enjoy a conversation with two-time Giller Prize-winning author M.G. Vassanji, in celebration of Everything There Is, his powerful new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion, and desire.
This on-stage conversation between Vassanji and literary consultant Meenakshi Alimchandani will explore the author’s career and delve into his new novel. It follows Nurul Islam 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.
M.G. Vassanji won the Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall, along with the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. He is a member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of the Canada Council Molson Prize for the Arts. He was born in Nairobi and raised in Tanzania before moving to Canada, and now lives in Toronto.
Meenakshi Alimchandani is a Toronto-based literary consultant who specializes in South Asian literature and authors. She curates the South Asian segment of the Toronto International Festival of Authors and consults for Canadian publishers, promoting authors including Amitav Ghosh and Ruby Lal.
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