What We Can Know

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<p><b>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD 2025**</b></p><p><b>'McEwan's most richly layered work' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b>'A gripping page-turner' <i>Observer</i></b><br><b>'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak</b></p><p><b>A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, </b><i><b>What We Can Know</b></i><b> spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going.</b></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b><i>What We Can Know</i> is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781787335745

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

227 x 149 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd