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What We Can Know

Pages
320
Published
2025
Language
English

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.

About the author

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Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. He began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His 1997 novel Enduring Love was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). He was awarded the 1999 Sha...

Characters

Thomas MetcalfeProtagonist
Francis BlundySupporting
VivienSupporting
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