Matthias Brandt reads Ian McEwan: What We Can Know

Matthias Brandt reads in the Großes Haus of the Berliner Ensemble from Ian McEwan’s new novel “Was wir wissen können” (“What We Can Know”), a touching love story and at the same time a philosophical crime novel.

In the year 2119, Europe has been largely flooded after a nuclear catastrophe; memories of the wealth, freedom and lightness of the 21st century are only a distant longing. Searching for a lost love poem, a literary scholar discovers traces of a crime.

The reading was arranged by Gerhard Ahrens for the Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg.