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001			048497
005			20231009193506.0
008			171207s20142014nyu g 100 1 Eng
020			_a978-0-374-17562-7
082	0		_aFIC RAH _2
100	0		_aRahman,Zia Haider _d(1969-)
245	1	0	_aIn the light of what we know _c/ Zia Haider Rahman
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, 2014, c2014
300			_a497 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_a"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"--|cProvided by publisher.
546			_a
650		4	_aFiction
650	1	4	_aMale friendship
650		4	_aInvestment banking _z-United States _x-History _y-21st century
650	1	4	_aMissing persons _x-Investigations
651		4	_aEngland _v--Fiction
655	0	4	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
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