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Click to enlarge What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Author) Format: Paperback Publisher:Vintage Publishing Imprint:Jonathan Cape ISBN:9781787335745 Published:18 Sep 2025 Classificatio ns: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Weight:13.90 oz Dimensions:9.17 x 6.02 x 1.06 inches Language:English For sale in: Germany, France, Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, (See full list) Other Formats Hardback from $18.48 Paperback / softback from $9.23 EA Description **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 ShafakA 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. Show more