What We Can Know

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**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 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 Format: Paperback | 384 pages Language: English ISBN: 9781787335745 Publisher: Vintage Publishing Publication date: 18 Sep 2025 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction Author: Ian McEwan Dimensions: 15.3 x 2.7 x 23.3 cm Weight: 394 g

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