An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library
I read In the Light of What We Know for the bookclub I recently joined. I didn’t like it from the first word. It was not badly written, just slow and not my kind of tea.
Book Review: In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
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Title & Author: In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
Genre: History, Contemporary
Release Date: March 4 2014
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Synopsis
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.