NEW YORK (AP) — The subsequent novel by Ian McEwan will likely be a post-apocalyptic story, set partially within the twenty second century and centered on a scholar’s immersion right into a poem written throughout happier occasions.
McEwan, the Booker Prize-winning British creator, is looking “What We Can Know” a piece of science fiction “with out the science.”
“I’ve written a novel a few quest, against the law, revenge, fame, a tangled love affair, psychological sickness, love of nature and poetry, and the way, by way of all pure and self-inflicted catastrophes, we’ve got the knack of surviving,” McEwan stated in a press release launched Friday by way of Alfred A. Knopf, which introduced the e-book will likely be printed Sept. 16.
“In our occasions, we all know extra concerning the world than we ever did, and such information will likely be onerous to erase. My ambition on this novel was to let the previous, current and future tackle one another throughout the obstacles of time.”
The 76-year-old McEwan has beforehand imagined disasters and disruptions — and the way we reply — whether or not the specter of local weather change in “Solar,” a radiation cloud in “Lessons” or synthetic intelligence in “Machines Like Me.” Knopf writer and editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin stated in a press release that “What We Can Know” is an exploration of the “limits of our information,” whether or not of different individuals or the arc of the previous.
“As the title suggests, the book calls into question the limits of our knowledge about our most intimate companions, and about history itself,” Pavlin stated. “How many irrecoverable secrets and stories are lost to the past? McEwan’s genius in this novel is to recover, in an exquisite feat of storytelling, a long-lost secret.”
