Scientist Amal and her blind sister Mehwish their heretical grandfatherZahoor and Noman the young man who changes all their livesthese are the fourshifting cham... » 

Scientist Amal and her blind sister Mehwish their heretical grandfatherZahoor and Noman the young man who changes all their livesthese are the fourshifting chambers who make the heart of The Geometry of God the new novel fromlauded Pakistani writer Uzma Aslam Khan. The Geometry of God follows thesecharacters as their lives unfold against the backdrop of General Zias Pakistanwhere religious fundamentalists and the mujaheddin funded by gem sales and theAmericans gather power and scientists and poets come under threat. This is abook to be savored as the sisters show us digging as Amal does toward thenovels deepest questions about love and knowledge and faith moving as Mehwishdoes to the rhythms of an abundant and original language. «