{"product_id":"what-we-can-know-paperback-by-ian-mcewan","title":"What We Can Know Paperback by Ian McEwan","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-06-16)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e320\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781039058224\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e232.47\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e20.32 x 13.16 x 1.65\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK • From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAtonement \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSaturday, \u003c\/i\u003ea genre-bending novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The best thing McEwan has written in ages. It’s a sophisticated entertainment of a high order.” —Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Brilliantly, and surprisingly, plotted. . . . [McEwan] demonstrates with shocking intensity how little we can ever really grasp about the strange evasions of the heart.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\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\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eIAN McEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen 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\u003ewhich won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the 1998 Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eAtonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMachines Like Me, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a number-one bestseller. \u003ci\u003eAtonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Chesil Beach\u003c\/i\u003e have all been adapted for the big screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46548430192801,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781039058224","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781039058224.jpg?v=1781597829","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/what-we-can-know-paperback-by-ian-mcewan","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}