{"product_id":"what-we-can-know-9798217007943","title":"What We Can Know [McEwan, Ian]","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eIan McEwan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \/ From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSaturday, \u003c\/i\u003ea genre-bending novel full of secrets and surprises, and an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, \"A Corona for Vivien.\" Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal is consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come, people will speculate about the message of this poem, the only copy of which goes missing, leading to an enduring mystery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the planet has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the waterlogged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, \"A Corona for Vivien.\" \u003ci\u003eHow wild and full of risk their lives were, \u003c\/i\u003e thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant period, captivated by the vivid romances, politics, and betrayals of the era. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's location, a story is revealed of entangled loves, long-kept secrets, and a brutal crime that destroys his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat We Can Know\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece: a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, and a literary detective story that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.03oz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217007943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIAN McEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eFirst Love, Last Rites, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Child in Time, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 1998 Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eAtonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell;\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Machines Like Me, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a number-one bestseller. \u003ci\u003eAtonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOn Chesil Beach\u003c\/i\u003e have all been adapted for the big screen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45018517504176,"sku":"9798217007943b","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2341\/9361\/files\/img_157ac75c-68a3-4151-a3fd-cc80831b39a9.jpg?v=1773968188","url":"https:\/\/pandemoniumbooks.com\/products\/what-we-can-know-9798217007943","provider":"Pandemonium Books and Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}