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In the Light of What We Know

by Zia Haider Rahman
In the Light of What We Know - Thryft
In the Light of What We Know - Thryft
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2014)
  • Orwell Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)
  • Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Books Are My Bag New Writer of the Year (2014)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Ranald MacDonald Award (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

In the Light of What We Know

by Zia Haider Rahman
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ISBN: 9781250062376
Authors: Zia Haider Rahman
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2015-02-17
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.65
(rated by 4512 readers)

Description

A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our centuryAn investment banker approaching forty, his career collapsing and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London town house. Confronting the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost college friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared many years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced with a confession of unsettling power.Zia Haider Rahman takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope, ranging over Kabul, London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton and dealing with love, belonging, finance, science, and war. Its framework is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other, both of them desperate in their different ways to climb clear of their wrong beginnings. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic recession, the novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class, culture, and faith as they struggle to tame their futures. In the Light of What We Know is by turns tender, intimate, and panoramic, telescoping the great upheavals of our young century into a first novel of rare ambition and profundity.
 
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2014)
  • Orwell Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)
  • Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Books Are My Bag New Writer of the Year (2014)
  • Goldsmiths Prize Nominee (2014)
  • Ranald MacDonald Award (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.