Book Overview. From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon --named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides--is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. · Apeirogon by Colum McCann review – a beautifully observed masterpiece Based on the true-life friendship of two men whose daughters were killed in the Middle East, this novel buoys the heartEstimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Colum McCann’s beautiful story is based on the tragic deaths of two young girls from cultures in conflict with each other. Apeirogon, a Novel, () is about how the girls’ fathers unite to tell their stories. The grieving fathers, Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, come together on a mission to find peace.
Apeirogon is a novel published in by Irish-American author Colum McCann and is based on a real-life story. The book focuses on the unexpected friendship of two fathers, Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Rami Elhanan, who connect over the shared loss of their respective daughters. Despite the hatred between the two countries, and the. "Colum McCann loves a high-wire act, and Apeirogon is a powerful, political tightrope walk of a novel. It's the story of modern Israel and the story of modern Palestine. This beautiful, deeply felt book is first and foremost an extraordinary act of listening.". Apeirogon is an object with unlimited sides; so, too, is any look at the situation in Israel and Palestine. Told through the true stories of Rami (Israeli) and Bassam (Palestinian) and embellished with numerous factoids (falcons, blimps, John Cage music, etc., etc.) this is a multi-faceted look both at life in an occupied country and a deeply historical part of the world.
From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss. Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon —named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides—is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging. With their blessing, and unprecedented access to their families, lives, and personal recollections, McCann began to craft Apeirogon, which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers’ moving story at its heart. About Apeirogon: A Novel. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire.
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