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I can't do better than this from the Sunday Times: "What We Can Know may well have created a new genre: the postapocalyptic campus novel. Imagine AS Byatt’s Possession crossed with Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Dark academia meets the big ideas novel, all conveyed in McEwan’s trim, beautifully ordered sentences.” I can only add that the story is filled with surprises about the characters we meet. The minute you think you know someone, you read the story through another point-of-view and are astonished by how wrong the other perspective was. McEwan is truly brilliant. His insights into the human mind and peoples' emotions leave me gaping like a second grader. Yes, I recommend it.
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I can't do better than this from the Sunday Times: "What We Can Know may well have created a new genre: the postapocalyptic campus novel. Imagine AS Byatt’s Possession crossed with Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Dark academia meets the big ideas novel, all conveyed in McEwan’s trim, beautifully ordered sentences.” I can only add that the story is filled with surprises about the characters we meet. The minute you think you know someone, you read the story through another point-of-view and are astonished by how wrong the other perspective was. McEwan is truly brilliant. His insights into the human mind and peoples' emotions leave me gaping like a second grader. Yes, I recommend it.
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