Ian McEwanLiterary Fiction · Fiction·b. 1948
What We Can Know
Synopsis
In 2014, a poet reads a new work for his wife's birthday, a poem that will become an enduring mystery. Over a century later, in a world reshaped by rising seas, a scholar becomes obsessed with finding this lost poem. His research uncovers a story of love and crime that challenges everything he thought he knew.
How it reads
Prose complexity 7/10