{"product_id":"what-we-can-know-a-novel","title":"What We Can Know:  A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"contributors___d5659\"\u003eIan McEwan\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex dir-col\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"min-width-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Sale Date: Sep 23, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"related-products-container\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"related-products-container\"\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"MuiList-root MuiList-padding css-1wduhak\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MuiListItem-root MuiListItem-gutters MuiListItem-padding css-146xefr\"\u003eFiction \/ Science Fiction \/ Apocalyptic \u0026amp; Post-Apocalyptic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MuiListItem-root MuiListItem-gutters MuiListItem-padding css-146xefr\"\u003eFiction \/ Literary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MuiListItem-root MuiListItem-gutters MuiListItem-padding css-146xefr\"\u003eFiction \/ Romance \/ Science Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"related-products-container\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e320\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biblioTwoItemContainer___QeMy0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e24.3 cm H | 16.3 cm W | 2.9 cm T | 487.6 g Wt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"dotDot\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning, bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtonement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It gave me so much pleasure I sometimes felt like laughing. . . . It’s a sophisticated entertainment of a high order.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, “A Corona for Vivien.” Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal is consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, the only copy of which goes missing, leading to an enduring mystery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the Western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the waterlogged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, “A Corona for Vivian.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow wild and full of risk their lives were\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat We Can Know\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52404082377001,"sku":"9780593804728","price":630.0,"currency_code":"MXN","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9420\/7529\/files\/9780593804728_8f2c7.jpg?v=1767737147","url":"https:\/\/www.bookup.com.mx\/products\/what-we-can-know-a-novel","provider":"BOOKUPMX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}