{"product_id":"9781787335738","title":"What We Can Know","description":"Author: McEwan, Ian\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781787335738\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 18 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Can Know\u003c\/i\u003e spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the finest writers alive' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2014- A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2119- 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA quest, a literary thriller and a love story, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Can Know\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A true master' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46882746859678,"sku":"UBD-9781787335738","price":54.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781787335738.jpg?v=1779862394","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781787335738","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}