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What We Can Know

By Ian McEwan

What We Can Know Contemporary literature

What We Can Know

By Ian McEwan

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'McEwan's most richly layered work' Sunday Times 'A gripping page-turner' Observer 'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak 'A big, unabashed crowd-pleaser' TLS A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. 2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately. What We Can Know is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
301
Release Date:
2025-09-18
Publication Date:
2025-09-18
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1787335747
ISBN13:
9781787335745
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
400 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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