Gari Niye Pari Sange Einstein

Author: Michael Paterniti
Genre: Biography - Autobiography - Memoir
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789350406960
Pages: 288
Weight: 426 grams

Book Description:

After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, his brain was removed and preserved at Princeton University for scientific research. However, for decades, no one knew exactly what research had been conducted on it. Even the whereabouts of the doctor who possessed Einstein’s brain became a mystery.

Forty years later, journalist Michael Paterniti tracked down the doctor in New Jersey. When he learned that the doctor wanted to return Einstein’s brain to his granddaughter in Berkeley, California, Paterniti took on the task of driving them—across the entire United States. The third passenger on this surreal journey? Einstein’s brain, preserved in a glass jar.

As Paterniti embarks on this bizarre road trip, unexpected encounters and strange twists unfold, making Gari Niye Pari Sange Einstein part travelogue, part memoir, part philosophy, and part history. Originally published in Harper’s Magazine in 2000, this award-winning story later received the National Magazine Award.

About the Author:

Michael Paterniti is an American writer and journalist. A former editor at Outside Magazine and a reporter for GQ, his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Harper’s, Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and GQ.

In addition to Driving Mr. Albert, he has written two other books: Love and Other Ways of Dying and The Telling Room. He currently lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife and three children, where he is actively involved with The Telling Room, a nonprofit organization for young writers.

About the Translator:

Gautam Basu is a professor of biophysics at Bose Science Temple in Kolkata. Apart from his scientific pursuits, he is passionate about literature and devotes his leisure time to writing.