{"product_id":"what-we-can-know-9781529959208","title":"What We Can Know","description":"\u003cp\u003eA quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat We Can Know is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Ian McEwan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18 Jun 2026 by Vintage Publishing.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ian McEwan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320818508154,"sku":"9781529959208","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781529959208.jpg?v=1790662767","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-we-can-know-9781529959208","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}