In the light of what we know
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"A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. An 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, Princeton, and Sylhet, and dealing with love, belonging, finance, cognitive 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. "--
Subjects
Subjects
Fiction
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Fiction
Investment banking
Investment banking -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Male friendship
Male friendship -- Fiction
Missing persons
Missing persons -- Fiction
World politics
World politics -- 21st century -- Fiction
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Fiction
Investment banking
Investment banking -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Male friendship
Male friendship -- Fiction
Missing persons
Missing persons -- Fiction
World politics
World politics -- 21st century -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9780374175627
9781250062376
9781494525279
9781250062376
9781494525279
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Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-26 00:51:08AM |
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"A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. An 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, Princeton, and Sylhet, and dealing with love, belonging, finance, cognitive 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. "--
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Fiction
Investment banking -- Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Male friendship -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
World politics -- 21st century -- Fiction
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Fiction
Investment banking -- Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Male friendship -- Fiction
Missing persons -- Fiction
World politics -- 21st century -- Fiction
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In the light of what we know
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In the light of what we know
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
Investment banking
Literature
Male friendship
Missing persons
World politics
Investment banking
Literature
Male friendship
Missing persons
World politics
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