In the Light of what We Know

Zia Haide Rahman

Published by Pan Macmillan, 2014

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London: SOFT COVER LARGE SIZE EDITION-NO MARKS,INSCRIPTIONS OR TEARS-WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE-Pan Macmillan, 2014 Used One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack, the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power In the Light of What We Know takes us on a journey of exhilarating scope - from Kabul to London, New York, Islamabad, Oxford, and Princeton - and explores the great questions of love, belonging, science, and war It is an age-old story: the friendship of two men and the betrayal of one by the other The visitor, a man desperate to climb clear of his wrong beginnings, seeks atonement; and the narrator sets out to tell his friend's story but finds himself at the limits of what he can know about the world - and, ultimately, himself Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, this surprisingly tender novel chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class and culture as they struggle to tame their futures In an extraordinary feat of imagination, Zia Haider Rahman has telescoped the great upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare intimacy and power.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Light of what We Know
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
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