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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.
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Ian McEwan tells an eminently readable story about a lost poem. But his book is about much more than this. Through its exploration of the relationship between past, present and future comes a warning of the need to value what we have now and to plan for a viable future. His depiction of the world of 2119 - less than a century away - is a fascinating but chilling one of the consequences of not heeding the incontrovertible signs of climate change and the world that has been lost. This story of the future reveals the lack of foresight of…
Ian McEwan takes us into our presumptions, our blithe and superficial readings of other people's lives, and then upends them, along with any smugness that may remain. It is also a shot across the bow of academia, which always makes me smile.
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