{"product_id":"what-we-can-know-ian-mcewan-9781529959208","title":"What We Can Know","description":"In a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller.   ‘Full of wisdom and heart. I loved it’ Elif Shafak‘A gripping page-turner’ Observer‘It gave me so much pleasure’ New York Times2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message.    2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those who survive are haunted by all that has been lost.   Tom Metcalfe, a university scholar, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past.    ‘What We Can Know may well have created a new genre’ Sunday Times‘Brilliantly plotted… In What We Can Know, the past is an irresistible riddle’ Washington Post‘Propulsive…entertaining and enjoyable’ Financial Times‘A dazzling novel’ Independent‘Haunting, playful and ultimately hopeful… A wonderful book’ Kaliane Bradley‘A poignant love letter to the vanishing past’ Guardian*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Spectator, New Yorker, i Paper and Barack Obama*","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51876150870304,"sku":"9781529959208","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781529959208_2907187.jpg?v=1781758575","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/what-we-can-know-ian-mcewan-9781529959208","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}