Ian McEwan's New Novel Turns on a Missing Poem
In a Britain disfigured by climate disaster, a professor spends years chasing the trace of a vanished poem, according to a presentation of the book on France Culture.
Ian McEwan's latest novel is built around a literary mystery that is never solved: the disappearance of a poem, according to France Culture's Le Book Club, which devoted an episode to the book on October 21.
The setting, per the programme's summary, is a United Kingdom disfigured by climate catastrophes. Within it, a professor devotes a large part of his life to trying to recover the trace of the lost poem.
France Culture's description does not go further into plot, characters or publication details, and no French title, publisher or release date was given in the material reviewed here.
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