{"product_id":"what-we-can-know-ian-mcewan","title":"What We Can Know (Ian Mcewan)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD 2025**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'McEwan's most richly layered work' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A gripping page-turner' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA quest, a literary thriller and a love story, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat We Can Know\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat We Can Know\u003c\/i\u003e 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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIan McEwan\u003c\/b\u003e is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eFirst Love, Last Rites\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Child in Time\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Cement Garden\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEnduring Love\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAmsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSaturday\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOn Chesil Beach\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSolar\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSweet Tooth\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Children Act\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNutshell\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMachines Like Me\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLessons\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnduring Love, The Children Act\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Chesil Beach\u003c\/i\u003e have all been adapted for the big screen.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 320 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63379593986397,"sku":"K098540144","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/214658-9854014400001A.jpg?v=1770779523","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/what-we-can-know-ian-mcewan","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}