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. The two countries have had a history of war and many innocent people from both sides have been killed. The entire book narrates the violence between Israel and Palestine. 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. Colum McCann Apeirogon: A Novel Hardcover International Edition, Februby Colum McCann (Author) 4,318 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. 2 Discuss the theme of hostility and death in Apeirogon by Colum McCann. Bassam and Rami on a train in Germany Abir, age 9 Smadar age 10 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. Apeirogon is a gripping book about war, death, pain, grief, healing, and friendship. “Apeirogon - a shape with a countably infinite number of sides”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. Despite the author’s lack of real experience with war and grief, Colum McCann successfully portrays the pain of Bassam and Rami while remaining true to the actual events that inspired the bond that these two fathers now share. 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.

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