PRE-ORDER: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

2014: A poem is read aloud once then vanishes without a trace.

2119: A century later, the seas have risen and the world is under water. Those who remain are haunted by what’s been lost – and what might still be found.

When university scholar Tom Metcalfe stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past…

REVIEWS

"What We Can Know may well have created a new genre: the postapocalyptic campus novel. Imagine AS Byatt’s Possession crossed with Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Dark academia meets the big ideas novel, all conveyed in McEwan’s trim, beautifully ordered sentences." ."- Johanna Thomas-Corr ― Sunday Times

"An ambitious and an accomplished work of fiction, it’s…rewarding and thought-provoking ― Financial Times

"What We Can Know is a daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart." - Elif Shafak

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1529959208
Pages: 320