What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

earliest edition we have, 2025 Knopf, 2025 ebook 320 pages

**2014** 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 consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never...

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What We Can Know hardcover · 2025 · Jonathan Cape · 320 pages · 9781787335738
Wat we kunnen weten ebook · 2025 · Harmonie · 9789463362511
What We Can Know ebook · 2025 · Knopf · 320 pages · 9780593804735

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