![]() In a 4,000-word review for The New Yorker, the critic James Wood described Rahman as “a deep and subtle storyteller,” and praised the novel as “astonishingly achieved…Isn’t this kind of thinking-worldly and personal, abstract and concrete, essayistic and dramatic-exactly what the novel is for? How it justifies itself as a form?… In the Light of What We Know is what Salman Rushdie once called an ‘everything novel.’ It is wide-armed, hospitable, disputatious, worldly, cerebral. It is a novel that makes sense of the past decade, its geopolitical tensions and the way we as hapless individuals experience those complexities.” Ideas and provocations abound on every page.” Īustralian literary critic Louise Adler reviewing the novel for The Sydney Morning Herald, wrote “My faith in fiction has been restored…Rahman writes brilliantly and hilariously about British class-consciousness… a satisfyingly and richly argumentative novel… In the Light of What We Know is my international book of 2014. ![]() ![]() The novel received wide critical acclaim internationally. ![]()
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