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His debut novel, In the Light of What We Know, will be featured at the Dunedin Writers And Readers Festival in May 2015. This title also won the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography)</div><div class="author_aka tinytext"><p class="alsoknownas">Includes the names: <span id="u_fbcf2974" class="lt_itemlist"><span class="ltil_item " ><a href="/author/haiderrahmanzia&norefer=2">Zia Haider Rahman</a>, </span><span class="ltil_item " ><a href="/author/ziahaiderrahman&norefer=2">Zia Haider Rahman</a></span></span></p></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_mainworks" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_5ada" data-caret-id="tdc_u_5ada" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_8e3d" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("mainworks", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="mainworks" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_5ada" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Works by Zia Haider Rahman</h2><span id="tdh_u_8e3d" ><a name="mainworks"></a><div class="section_controls"><div data-value="0" class="lt_pillbox lt_blend_nav small 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data-hidden-id="tdh_u_ab98" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("reviews", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="reviews" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_f763" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Reviews</h2><span id="tdh_u_ab98" ><a name="reviews"></a><input type="hidden" id="cache_key" value="u_79ac154d"><div class="brevs_container author_brevs_container "><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_269089198" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/14602979" data-workid="14602979" data-title="In-the-Light-of-What-We-Know-Zia-Haider-Rahman" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, 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[b:In the Light of What We Know|17934468|In the Light of What We Know|Zia Haider Rahman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1372677492l/17934468._SY75_.jpg|25142330] was ideally suited to this, as it is erudite to the point of stodginess. The narrative is structured as a conversation between two old friends, meandering around incidents in their lives <u class="showmore_hide">and important international milestones, particularly 9/11, the US invasion of Afghanistan, and the 2007/8 financial crisis. Even the narrator has his limits, though: <br><br><blockquote>Zafar moved on to an explanation of Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem, but this took us along yet another digression carrying us further afield. He did not, in fact, lose his thread and, in due course, he returned to his story of meeting the Hampton-Wyverns and then the narrative of events in Afghanistan (in fact there was only ever just one thread, winding in ways that are now apparent). Even so, I am inclined to skip over the account concerning Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem, a digression too far, which should not be taken as an indication of anything other than my own need to keep a grip on the twisting and turning of Zafar’s discussion, the ranging back and forth. <br>In 2000, how many people know what sub-prime mortgages were? He asked me. <br>Hang on! How did we get to mortgages? I responded. <br>Zafar simply repeated the question.</blockquote> <br><br>There are no speech marks throughout. This both adds to the sense of closely observing a long conversation between friends and leads to confusion about who is speaking. The latter certainly emphasises the unreliability of the narration – the reader knows that Zafar is telling his friend only parts of his story, but also that the narrator’s perspective shapes his reporting of what Zafar said, did, and wrote. Despite being 550 pages long and packed with carefully described incidents, this is a remarkably ambiguous novel. Zafar remains a mystery to the narrator and the reader, while the narrator is scarcely less enigmatic himself. There is certainly a sense that you can learn a lot of detail about someone’s life without understanding them at all, as it’s impossible to say whether what you’ve been told is actually significant. Zafar and the narrator gloss over events that would be the plot focus of a different novel. Indeed, the plot is not the point at all as the novel is concerned with big social and philosophical themes: wealth, class, privilege, freedom, love, duty, ambition, and the search for meaning in life. <br><br>Although the preceding paragraphs don’t really constitute a recommendation, I did enjoy [b:In the Light of What We Know|17934468|In the Light of What We Know|Zia Haider Rahman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1372677492l/17934468._SY75_.jpg|25142330] thanks to the beautiful and often insightful writing: <br><br><blockquote>I have always felt that choice is a rarity in life, that it lies in wait in the crevices of time, to surprise us when we seem to have the least room to manoeuvre. The grand architecture of our time on earth bears no choice at all, no trace of will, free or otherwise. Without our will we are born and against it we die. We do not choose our mothers, any more than they choose the children that they bear. We do not choose the circumstances of our parents, the home and inheritance, the unearned talents, or the circumstances of our formative infant years when our brains congeal into a steady state, and our neural pathways set us on the course of our lives. Most of the time, we heed unwritten rules. They may be rules of culture and conditioning, patterns imprinted on the tender firmament of youth, or they may be the rules knotted into our brains, woven with DNA by our biological parents, but they are all still rules, by which we live, by which we are governed. That notion of choice as we move through the world, the free will that we claim so proudly, is only the reflection of the body’s foregone direction, an image in the distorting mirror of ego, a trick of the light.</blockquote> <br><br>Always running through the conversation between Zafar and the narrator is the frustration of any communication: how to effectively convey the subjectivity of your own experience? <br><br><blockquote>Look, said Zafar. It was he who now showed exasperation. I don’t know how to get anywhere close to my own life, he said. My drama, like everyone’s, goes on upstairs, in the head. And I don’t think you can write the drama of the mind. All you have are the things people do. It’s always about what they do, and yet the mind if where the battles take place, the tragedies and comedies that rule the day. So we fall back on metaphors.</blockquote> <br><br>This drama of the mind is what the book is trying to convey, or at least demonstrate the difficulty of conveying. The text is full of quotations from and references to books, films, aphorisms, research, etc as these are amongst the tools we use to attempt explanations of our perspectives to others. However, this perpetual quoting at each other can be a little exasperating for the reader. It often seems to obscure rather than elucidate something, again emphasising the unreliability of the narrator, of Zafar, and of consciousness in general. [b:In the Light of What We Know|17934468|In the Light of What We Know|Zia Haider Rahman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1372677492l/17934468._SY75_.jpg|25142330] also contains one of the best descriptions I’ve ever found of the flow state: <br><br><blockquote>It was only in those periods of concentration, when the self is abnegated and the mind and the subject are fused and all thought is governed by the matter at hand, determined by it, as if it is not you that engages the subject, the work, but the work itself requisitioning the tools of your mind for its inherent purpose – it was during those periods that ironically I felt most in control, that gave me the whole of time – before, after, and during – an aspect of will.</blockquote> <br><br>The short interview with the author included in the back of the paperback edition I read goes into the themes and context for the novel. Zia Haider Rahman’s comments are thoughtful and definitely added to my appreciation. That said, I wouldn’t unequivocally recommend [b:In the Light of What We Know|17934468|In the Light of What We Know|Zia Haider Rahman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1372677492l/17934468._SY75_.jpg|25142330] as some may find the meandering philosophical reflections, jigsaw of plot fragments, and exceedingly verbose protagonists trying. It rewards patience, but not with catharsis.</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_7d37ea56');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_39300962" title="4 Stars" aria-title="4 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="8" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="7" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_269089198" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_269089198"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_269089198" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_269089198" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_269089198" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_269089198"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/annarchism" target="_top">annarchism</a> | <a href="/work/14602979/reviews" data-workid="14602979" data-title="In-the-Light-of-What-We-Know-Zia-Haider-Rahman" class="" >16 other reviews</a> | Aug 4, 2024 | <a href="/review/269089198"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_253802393" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/14602979" data-workid="14602979" data-title="In-the-Light-of-What-We-Know-A-Novel" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/14602979" data-workid="14602979" data-title="In-the-Light-of-What-We-Know-A-Novel" class="" >In the Light of What We Know: A Novel</a> by <a href="/author/rahmanziahaider">Zia Haider Rahman</a></div></div><div class="" >I tried. It just did not move. It didn’t move me, or the story. I attempted to read this twice. Once getting in about 80 pages, the second retracing said 80 and going a couple hundred more. DNF</div class="" ></div><div id="rfd_253802393" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_253802393"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_253802393" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_253802393" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_253802393" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_253802393"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/BookyMaven" target="_top">BookyMaven</a> | <a href="/work/14602979/reviews" data-workid="14602979" data-title="In-the-Light-of-What-We-Know-A-Novel" class="" >16 other reviews</a> | Dec 6, 2023 | <a href="/review/253802393"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_197667897" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/14602979" data-workid="14602979" data-title="In-the-Light-of-What-We-Know-A-Novel" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0374175624.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/14602979" data-workid="14602979" data-title="In-the-Light-of-What-We-Know-A-Novel" class="" >In the Light of What We Know: A Novel</a> by <a href="/author/rahmanziahaider">Zia Haider Rahman</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_f7aa5609" >I often encounter men of my age group (the not so young cohort) who say that they don’t read fiction. There is sort of an implied attitude that non-fiction is serious and fiction, is well, perhaps frivolous. Something that they might squeeze in as an indulgence every once in a great while.<br><br>They need to read “In Light of What We Know” which is a very good novel, but one that has more history, religion, carpentry, sociology and coverage of major world events than probably all <u class="showmore_hide">of the books on the top ten non-fiction best seller list. <br> <br>I am not a fan of non-punctuation dialogue unless it’s done by Cormac McCarthy and I really like to see a little white space on every page (I was tempted at times to increase the font size on my Kindle just to reduce the number of words on the screen), but this book was so good that those issues were, for me, inconsequential. <br><br></u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_f7aa5609');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_7029ceae" title="5 Stars" aria-title="5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" 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