03003nam a2200409 i 4500 34119 BD-DhAAL 20211124125759.0 190102t2014 nyu 000 1 eng 40136 40136 2013038711 9781250062376 (paperback) 9780374710088 (e-book) 9780374175627 (hardback) DLC eng DLC rda DLC BD-DhAAL pcc PS3618.A3835 I5 2014 813.6 23 FIC019000 bisacsh Rahman, Zia Haider, 1969- 29329 In the light of what we know : a novel / Zia Haider Rahman. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2014. 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "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. "-- ENH Trim Education 34119, 34120 Male friendship Fiction. 29330 Investment banking Fiction. 29331 Missing persons Fiction. 29332 Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Fiction. 29333 World politics 21st century Fiction. 29334 English language 43073 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 813_600000000000000_RAH 0 64769 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2018-12-09 Trim Education 2330.00 11 80 813.6 RAH 3010034119 2025-08-17 2025-08-10 1 2330.00 2018-12-09 BK 0 0 ddc 0 813_600000000000000_RAH 0 64770 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2018-12-09 Trim Education 2330.00 6 21 813.6 RAH 3010034120 2025-11-15 2025-10-19 2 2330.00 2018-12-09 BK