What We Can Know: The new Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Atonement

Name: What We Can Know: The new Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Atonement
Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

2 Bedømmelse: 2.5
Længde: 11T 38M
Sprog: Engelsk
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Kategori: Romaner

In a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller.

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message.

2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those who survive are haunted by all that has been lost.

Tom Metcalfe, a university scholar, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past.

‘Full of wisdom and heart. I loved it’ Elif Shafak ‘A gripping page-turner’ Observer ‘It gave me so much pleasure’ New York Times ‘A dazzling novel’ Independent ‘Haunting, playful and ultimately hopeful… A wonderful book’ Kaliane Bradley ‘A poignant love letter to the vanishing past’ Guardian

*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Spectator, New Yorker, i Paper and Barack Obama*

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Lydbog: 18. september 2025