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What we can know / Ian McEwan.
One hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a nuclear accident. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar and researcher, longs for the early 21st century as he chases the ghost of a poem written in 2014. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.
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- ISBN: 9781039058200 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 301 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2025.
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| Subject: | End of the world > Fiction. Future, The > Fiction. Scholars > Fiction. Sea level > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. Apocalyptic fiction. Novels. |
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Summary:
One hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a nuclear accident. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar and researcher, longs for the early 21st century as he chases the ghost of a poem written in 2014. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.
