# What We Can Know

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- Libro: [What We Can Know](https://www.archivodelibros.es/ian-mcewan/en/what-we-can-know) ([What We Can Know.md](https://www.archivodelibros.es/ian-mcewan/en/what-we-can-know.md))
- Autores: [Ian McEwan](https://www.archivodelibros.es/ian-mcewan)
- Editorial: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2995-920-8
- Páginas: 320
- Publicación: 2026-06-18
- Idioma: en_GB
- Encuadernación: Softcover

## Descripción

'One of the finest writers alive' Sunday Times 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. A 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. 'A true master' Daily Telegraph 'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times