What We Can Know

von Ian McEwan

301 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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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 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.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.

• Themen: Belletristik Spekulative Literatur
• ISBN: 9781787335745
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2025
• Größe: 227 x 149 mm
• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd