What We Can Know
From a drowned future, scholars piece together our present, and find how little of a life survives the reconstruction.
Ian McEwan sets a novel in a flooded future looking back at our present, where scholars reconstruct a lost poem and the lives around it from fragments. It is McEwan working his long preoccupation, how much of another person can ever be recovered, at the scale of a civilisation reading its own wreckage.
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