{"product_id":"9781039058224","title":"What We Can Know","description":"\u003cb\u003eINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK • From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAtonement \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSaturday, \u003c\/i\u003ea genre-bending novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The best thing McEwan has written in ages. It’s a sophisticated entertainment of a high order.” —Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Brilliantly, and surprisingly, plotted. . . . [McEwan] demonstrates with shocking intensity how little we can ever really grasp about the strange evasions of the heart.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\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\u003e\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","brand":"Ian McEwan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48329018376414,"sku":"9781039058224.","price":20.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_17b95e4d-88c2-498c-bf0c-ae35e990fc84.jpg?v=1781229991","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9781039058224","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}