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In the Light of What We Know
In the Light of What We Know | Zia Haider Rahman
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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 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.
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cute cover 💛 11mo
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Vansa
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Contribution 5 to @bookriot #RiotGrams #October challenge #bigbooks-a lovely meditation on displacement.

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BarbaraBB
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Mehso-so

Not as memorable as I hoped, this story about male friendship. Picture: View on Tokyo

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Vansa
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There are a lot of beautifully written lines in this sublime debut novel. Also I love the fact that the author seems to like Somerset Maugham- one of my favourite writers who isn't mentioned too much anymore!

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lorenaramli
In the Light of What We Know | Zia Haider Rahman

It's the memory of extravagance that makes other times hard.

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Cindyelizavaz
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#nowreading this on Kobo! First time attempting 2 books at the same time. All in the name of book discussions 😄

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Opening line:
"In the early hours of one September morning in 2008, there appeared on the doorstep of our home in South Kensington a brown-skinned man, haggard and gaunt, the ridges of his cheekbones set above an unkempt beard."
#bookgnome #openingline #dumbledwarf #inthelightofwhatweknow #ziahaiderrahman

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keirplaice
In the Light of What We Know | Zia Haider Rahman
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*****

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Gnoe
In the Light of What We Know | Zia Haider Rahman
Bailedbailed

Did not finish.