What we can know

R$ 147,90

Sinopse

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 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.When 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.What 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.

Participantes

Autor: Ian Mcewan

Autor

IAN MCEWAN

Ian McEwan nasceu em Aldershot, Inglaterra, em 1948. É um dos ficcionistas mais importantes de sua geração. Seus livros já lhe renderam uma série de prêmios literários, entre eles o Booker Prize 1998 por Amsterdam, o Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2002 por Reparação, e o James Tait Black 2005 por Sábado.