What We Can Know

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. 'It gave me so much pleasure I sometimes felt like laughing. . . . It's a sophisticated entertainment of a high order.' --The New York Times 'Brilliantly, and surprisingly, plotted.'--The Washington Post - 'A novelist of consummate skill.'--The Wall Street Journal - 'Elegantly structured and provocative.'--Los Angeles Times 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been