num_pages: 257
description: New York City thrums with energy, wonder, and possibility in this magical novel about the life of Nikola Tesla.It is 1943, and the renowned inventor Nikola Tesla occupies a forbidden room on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker, stealing electricity. Louisa, a young maid at the hotel determined to befriend him, wins his attention through a shared love of pigeons; with her, we hear his tragic and tremendous life story unfold. Meanwhile, Louisa discovers that her father—and her handsome, enigmatic love interest, Arthur Vaughan—are on an unlikely mission to travel back in time and find his beloved late wife. A masterful hybrid of history, biography, and science fiction, The Invention of Everything Else is an absorbing story about love and death and a wonderfully imagined homage to one of history's most visionary scientists.
language: English
title: The Invention of Everything Else
titlecomplete: The Invention of Everything Else
characters: Nikola Tesla
genres: Literary Fiction, Time Travel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy, New York, Historical, Novels
ratings_count: 2640
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist
publisher: Mariner Books