What We Can Know, 9781787335738
Hardcover
Lost poem, rising seas, entangled love, future catastrophe, will we know?

What We Can Know

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  • Hardcover

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    17 October 2025

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Summary

What We Can Know: A Masterpiece of Love, Loss, and Literary Pursuit

From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, 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. Th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787335738
ISBN-10:1787335739
Author:Ian McEwan
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:17 October 2025
Weight:519g
Dimensions:242mm x 161mm x 30mm
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About The Author

Ian McEwan

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.

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