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In the Light of What We Know

Written by: Zia Haider Rahman
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
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One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack until he recognises a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. As the friends begin to talk, a journey begins that is by turns exhilarating, shocking, intimate and strange.

©2014 Zia Haider Rahman (P)2014 Tantor Media Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

Critic Reviews

"[A]n ambitious and extraordinary achievement.... A novel about the entwining of politics and love and the painful quest for identity…this is a dazzling debut." ( Sunday Times)
"[A] heartbreaking love story and a gripping account of one man's psychological disintegration...an exploration of the post-9/11 world that is both personal and political, epic and intensely moving." ( Observer)
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Where this narrative is aiming to and where does it lead to is in fact nowhere. But the unsaid being more than the said, this is haunting and enthusiastically searching in the silence, in the darkness and in the stillness of world, mind and life. May be its too a waste, like all the rest of the efforts written world has to offer to the mankind. But at the least, it is free from all the literary superstitions and writer's hidden agenda for popularity.

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