What We Can Know

McEwan, Ian

ISBN 10: 1787335739 / ISBN 13: 9781787335738

Edité par London: Jonathan Cape, 2025

5th impression. Black cloth with white lettering to spine. Octavo. 301 pages. Signed by McEwan on the title page. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Page edges a bit tanned. Jacket a little creased along the top of the back flap. N° de réf. du vendeur 2903

Synopsis :

**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 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.

À propos de l'auteur: Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : What We Can Know
Éditeur : London: Jonathan Cape
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Assez bon
Etat de la jaquette : Assez bon
Signé : Signé par l'auteur