Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, 'Apeirogon' is a novel for our time. He crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. McCann crafts 'Apeirogon' out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material.

When Bassam and Rami learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace. Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. Think of reading David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, or George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo for the first time. Colum McCann’s Apeirogon is nothing like any book you’ve ever read. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate. Every significant novel is an act of reckless originality. The real-life inspirations for the novel, Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Rami Elhanan, who lost their young daughters to terrorist acts in the region, will join them for the conversation.įrom 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.Ĭolum 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.īassam Aramin is Palestinian. National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann discusses his new novel, 'Apeirogon,' with author Claire Messud.

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