From the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic comes the novel of a lifetime: about two men and their daughters, divided by conflict yet united in grief
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and his previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His work has been published in forty languages and has received many international honours, including a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and an Oscar nomination. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He was born in Dublin and lives in New York. colummccann.com
Nothing like any book you’ve ever read ... Think of discovering an
entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. 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 ...
All I can really tell you is, read McCann’s book. It’s an important
book
*MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM*
An apeirogon is a shape with a countably infinite number of sides –
and Colum McCann’s transcendent book is full of hundreds of
thought-provoking, emotional segments … McCann turns these haunting
true stories into engrossing fiction, and he does so with poetic
power
*independent.co.uk*
Powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinian and
Israeli
*Sunday Times, Books of 2020*
The tale of a friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian …
Composed of 1,001 chapters, it has won effusive praise from early
readers
*New Statesman*
Colum McCann seems to shape-shift with each new book; Apeirogon
examines the friendship between Israeli and Palestinian fathers who
have each lost children to the conflict
*Financial Times, 2020 visions: the year ahead in books*
His most ambitious work yet, chronicling the human cost of the
Israeli Palestinian conflict in a tale of love and loss that
crosses fiction and non-fiction
*RTE Guide*
A novel inspired by a true story about two men – one Israeli and
one Palestinian – who both lost daughters in the conflict and who
form an unexpected friendship
*Scotsman*
McCann’s epic, involving novel follows the slow-blooming friendship
between two men, an Israeli and a Palestinian, linked by the loss
of their daughters
*i paper*
The advance word on this novel suggests a level of ambition we may
not have encountered yet from the Dublin native. It explores the
Palestine-Israel conflict through the unlikely friendship of two
men from either side
*Irish Examiner, 20 Books for 2020*
A work that is both spectacularly inventive and grounded in brutal
fact. It is about grief and forgiveness, about family and politics.
If you can read it without sobbing, you’re a monster
*Observer, Books of 2020*
McCann’s epic involving novel follows the slow-blooming friendship
between two men, an Israeli and Palestinian, linked by the loss of
their daughters
*i, Books of 2020*
A glorious storytelling hybrid … Apeirogon is a brilliant novel,
formally intriguing, profoundly human
*BBC.com*
A masterpiece of characterisation and subtle political
commentary
*Waterstones.com*
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 ...
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. This book will break your heart
and make you rethink how storytelling works
*TEA OBREHT*
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*
Distinguished by empathy and intelligence, this book marks a new
threshold of writing ... 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. Sometimes books can do this
*RAJA SHEHADAH*
A work of incredible magnitude. McCann finds the emotional
accuracy, the sensitivity, and the beauty to tell the heartbreaking
reality of life in Israel-Palestine, while allowing readers a
glimmer of necessary hope. It is greater than a novel in more than
one sense, and will both touch and enrich readers, wherever they
live and whatever they know about the region
*ASSAF GAVRON*
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
*NATHAN ENGLANDER*
Distinguished by empathy and intelligence, this book marks a new
threshold of writing ... Apeirogon will have a strong effect on all
those who read it and, remarkably, could lead to great consequences
for the future ... Sometimes books can do this
*RAJA SHEHADAH*
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