Penguin Books What We Can Know (Tpb)

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Isbn: 9781787335745 Author: ian mcewan Publisher: jonathan cape

Language: english Skin: unbound

**shortlisted for the nero book awards fiction award 2025** * "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 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 have speculated 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, a part of britain's remaining archipelagos, delves into the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles upon 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 reclaim the present from our sense of impending catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.

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