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In the Light of What We Know

By Zia Haider Rahman

In the Light of What We Know Contemporary literature

In the Light of What We Know

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WINNER: JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED: GOLDSMITHS PRIZE and SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2014 LONGLISTED: GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD and ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 'It's hard not to write in superlatives of this extraordinary novel.' Guardian One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack, until he recognizes a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power. Theirs is the age-old story of the bond between two men and the betrayal of one by the other. As the friends begin to talk, and as their room becomes a world, a journey begins that is by turns exhilarating, shocking, intimate and strange. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, and moving between Kabul, New York, Oxford, London and Islamabad, In the Light of What We Know tells the story of people wrestling with unshakeable legacies of class and culture, and pushes at the great questions of love, origins, science, faith and war. In an extraordinary feat of imagination, Zia Haider Rahman has woven the seismic upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare compassion, scope, and courage.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
576
Release Date:
2015-01-01
Publication Date:
2015-01-01
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1447231236
ISBN13:
9781447231233
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
416 g
Height:
12.8 cm
Width:
19.8 cm
Thickness:
4.3 cm
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