What We Can Know
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简介
《我们所能知道的》是一部探索、一部文学惊悚片和一段爱情故事,它跨越过去、现在和未来,提出了关于我们是谁以及我们将去往哪里的深刻问题。
2014年:一首伟大的诗歌被大声朗诵,却再也听不到。几代人以来,人们一直在猜测它所蕴含的信息,但至今仍未找到任何抄本。
2119年:英国的低地被不断上升的海平面淹没。幸存下来的人们被失落的世界的丰富多彩所困扰。
汤姆·梅特卡夫是南唐斯大学的学者,南唐斯大学是英国仅存的群岛之一。他深入研究了21世纪初的档案,被人类生活时期的自由与可能性深深吸引。
当他偶然发现一条可能指向这失传巨作的线索时,纠缠不清的爱情和残酷的犯罪真相浮现,打破了他对一个他自认为非常了解的故事的假设。
《我们能知道什么》是一部杰作,它将我们眼前的现实从迫在眉睫的灾难感中解放出来,并描绘了一个并非一切都已消失的未来世界。
A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going.
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.
2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.
Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.
When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.
What We Can Know is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.