In the Light of What We Know - SIGNED 1st EDITION PROOF/ARC

Rahman, Zia Haider

ISBN 10: 0374175624 / ISBN 13: 9780374175627

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2014

About this Item

1st edition PROOF/ARC in fine condition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, with no other inscriptions. Not ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.(K22).

Seller Inventory # ABE-15546335270

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Light of What We Know - SIGNED 1st EDITION PROOF/ARC
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374175624
• ISBN 13: 9780374175627
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 chronicles the lives of people carrying unshakable legacies of class and culture as they struggle to tame their futures.
In an extraordinary feat of imagination, Zia Haider Rahman has telescoped the great upheavals of our young century into a novel of rare intimacy and power.

About the Author

Born in rural Bangladesh, Zia Haider Rahman was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and at Cambridge, Munich, and Yale Universities. He has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and as an international human rights lawyer. In the Light of What We Know is his first novel.