{"product_id":"9781787335745-secondhand-what-we-can-know","title":"What We Can Know","description":"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. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet\n\n'One of the finest writers alive' Sunday Times\n\n2014- A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.\n\n2119- 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.\n\nTom 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.\n\nWhen 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.\n\nA quest, a literary thriller and a love story, 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.\n\n'A true master' Daily Telegraph\n\n'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48183763239131,"sku":"9781787335745-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0ce7945d-d63a-4334-9030-a877c45dbcc0_7a265f0f-47b1-409d-a6f5-cc42ce8ced64.jpg?v=1769185490","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781787335745-secondhand-what-we-can-know","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}