Apeirogon will have a strong effect on all those who read it and, remarkably, could lead to great consequences for the future of this place. 'Distinguished by empathy and intelligence, this book marks a new threshold of writing.
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 This book will break your heart and make you rethink how storytelling works' - Tea Obreht Propulsive, muscular, swerving through details of life - real and imagined - with urgency, borne along on prose that is some of McCann's finest, fully displaying his powers as a storyteller of just about supernatural ability. 'Teeming with gorgeous prose a sweeping look at the paradoxical relationship between history and private life a penetrating examination of the deficiencies and marvels of the human spirit. It's an important book' - Michael Cunningham All I can really tell you is, read McCann's book. Think about feeling that the very idea of the novel, of what it can be and what it's capable of containing, has been expanded, forever. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. 'Apeirogon is the kind of book that comes along only once in a 's a masterpiece, a novel that will change the world, and you don't hear that very often.' - The Observer 'It is a daring, humane achievement.' - The Financial Times Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ISBN: 9781526607898 Number of pages: 480 Weight: 390 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, it is a book for our times from a writer at the height of his powers. In this epic novel - named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides - Colum McCann crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging.
There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school.
Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank.
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021
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