In the Light of What We Know
Ausgezeichnet: James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2014. Nominiert: The Orwell Prize 2015. Nominiert: National Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2014. Nominiert: Guardian First Book Award 2014. Nominiert
(Sprache: Englisch)
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.
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A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.
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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
'It's hard not to write in superlatives of this extraordinary novel.' Guardian
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 breakingof 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Zia Haider Rahman
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Zia Haider Rahman
- Altersempfehlung: 18 - 99 Jahre
- 2015, Main Market Ed., 576 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 1447231236
- ISBN-13: 9781447231233
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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