Zia Heider Rahman

In the Light of What We Know, a Novel by Zia Haider Rahman

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 30, 2014

Zia Haider Rahman discusses her debut novel, In the Light of What We Know, set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of this century. One September morning in 2008, an investment banker whose career and marriage are collapsing 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.

 

In the Light of What We Know

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