Zia Haider Rahman
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
497 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century. 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...