Penguin Random House South Africa
Categories: Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781787335738
Published: September 2025
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Page Extent: 320
Format: Hardback
RRP 585.00
What We Can Know
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD 2025**
'McEwan's most richly layered work' Sunday Times
'A gripping page-turner' Observer
'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak
A 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.
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.
2119: 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.
Tom Metcalfe, a...