Ian McEwan’s latest novel ‘What We Can Know’ is science fiction without the science

Ian McEwan’s latest novel ‘What We Can Know’ is science fiction without the science

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At 77, the Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan shows no signs of slowing down. His new novel, What We Can Know, is set in Great Britain in the 22nd century – a country now partly underwater as a result of global warming. In today’s episode, McEwan speaks with NPR’s Scott Simon about the book’s plot – it tells of a search for a lost poem that was written in our own times – and notes that he is less interested in the future of science than that of the humanities, love and daily life.

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