Two strangers meet in a park by chance.
Sonal, formerly a sociology professor and firebrand activist, is battling memory loss and acute depression. Abhay, a once-celebrated genetic engineer, is a paranoid fugitive hiding from an establishment whose scientific paradigm he once challenged.
To the world they both are insane, but the truth is deeper.
Abhay shares his most closely guarded thoughts with Sonal, in the form of a book. It is a radical, paradigm-shifting perspective, and the two misfits discover that they are kindred souls, forced to doubt their own sanity by a deluded culture.
Together, they plan to take their revelation to the world before it's too late. But, as always, reality has other plans...
'A gem of a book which first challenged my mind, and then blew it apart.'
AAMIR KHAN, Actor and Director
'Brilliant! Mansoor Khan is a master story-teller. Read One if you want to read a story well written. Read it if you want to figure out how we got into the mess we are in, facing multiple emergencies, including the real possibility ecological and social collapse and extinction. More importantly, read it to understand how the roots of the multiple crises lie in the myth of separation and superiority. And how waking up to our Oneness and interconnectedness with the living earth holds the promise of our future.'
VANDANA SHIVA, Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author
'Mansoor's One is a page-turner! This powerful, engaging, and important book makes clear the destructiveness of our current story and points us toward a new ecological story.'
DERRICK JENSEN, American ecophilosopher, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition. Utne Reader named Jensen among '50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World' in 2008.
'Mr Khan's novel is a powerfully original work, which operates on two levels, the personal and the philosophical. The author employs a relatively minimalist approach. I value the succinct, and Khan achieves great focus through a terse mode of presentation.'
JOHN ZERZAN, American critic of civilization, primitivist ecophilosopher and author
Two strangers meet in a park by chance.
Sonal, formerly a sociology professor and firebrand activist, is battling memory loss and acute depression. Abhay, a once-celebrated genetic engineer, is a paranoid fugitive hiding from an establishment whose scientific paradigm he once challenged.
To the world they both are insane, but the truth is deeper.
Abhay shares his most closely guarded thoughts with Sonal, in the form of a book. It is a radical, paradigm-shifting perspective, and the two misfits discover that they are kindred souls, forced to doubt their own sanity by a deluded culture.
Together, they plan to take their revelation to the world before it's too late. But, as always, reality has other plans...
'A gem of a book which first challenged my mind, and then blew it apart.'
AAMIR KHAN, Actor and Director
'Brilliant! Mansoor Khan is a master story-teller. Read One if you want to read a story well written. Read it if you want to figure out how we got into the mess we are in, facing multiple emergencies, including the real possibility ecological and social collapse and extinction. More importantly, read it to understand how the roots of the multiple crises lie in the myth of separation and superiority. And how waking up to our Oneness and interconnectedness with the living earth holds the promise of our future.'
VANDANA SHIVA, Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author
'Mansoor's One is a page-turner! This powerful, engaging, and important book makes clear the destructiveness of our current story and points us toward a new ecological story.'
DERRICK JENSEN, American ecophilosopher, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition. Utne Reader named Jensen among '50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World' in 2008.
'Mr Khan's novel is a powerfully original work, which operates on two levels, the personal and the philosophical. The author employs a relatively minimalist approach. I value the succinct, and Khan achieves great focus through a terse mode of presentation.'
JOHN ZERZAN, American critic of civilization, primitivist ecophilosopher and author
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