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In The Light Of What We Know: A Novel by Rahman, Zia Haider is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century 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 chronic
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- Author
- Rahman, Zia Haider
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374710088
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14