Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the novel for our times. 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. From the National Book Awardwinning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely. Rami’s thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends.īassam’s ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. Still, most reviews have not addressed the book’s political. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half. That was Susan Abulhawa’s verdict in a review in Al Jazeera, which condemned Apeirogon as, at best, a normalization sideshow. 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. The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief. Buy this book from .uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. (BTW, an apeirogon is a polygon with an infinite number of countable sides. The phrase recurs throughout McCann’s remarkable, compulsively readable new novel. It is a delirious and thrilling improvisation, a jazz solo spun out of that meeting. Apeirogon: A Novel (Colum McCann: Random House, 2020) Reviewed by Peter Eisenstadt Geography here is everything, writes Colum McCann on the first page of Apeirogon. And their stories become one story, a story with the power to heal - and the power to change the world. When Rami and Bassam meet, and tell one another the story of their grief, the most unexpected thing of all happens: they become best of friends. Both are fathers both are fathers of daughters - and both daughters are now lost. How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem - but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict. 'A quite extraordinary novel'- Kamila Shamsie. It is, itself, an agent of change' - New York Times Book Review. It left me hopeful this is its gift' - Elizabeth Strout. CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM. WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS.
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