From the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic: the novel of a lifetime, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. Apeirogon was a New York Times bestseller, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Prix Femina and Prix Medicis. His novel TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. 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
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
*
A profound account of pain and healing * Guardian *
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 *
Apeirogon is an empathy engine, utterly collapsing the gulf
between teller and listener ... It achieves its aim by merging acts
of imagination and extrapolation with historical fact. But it's
undisputably a novel, and, to my mind, an exceedingly important
one. It does far more than make an argument for peace; it is,
itself, an agent of change * New York Times Book Review *
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
Now you have to read Apeirogon ... Delirious and thrilling,
spectacular * Sunday Times *
Weaves documentary and imagination into its tough physical fabric .
.. Frequently beautiful ... Often dazzles ... At the core of this
fractal fiction is a simple, radiant myth: "The hero makes a friend
of his enemy" * Economist *
A jagged, fractured, teeming novel ... Apeirogon is a daring
structural feat, a conspicuously elaborate and multivalent piece of
novelistic engineering ... The distilled and fractured form has a
glistening poetry * Times Literary Supplement *
In the spirit of Picasso's Guernica, Apeirogon
reminds us that such incandescent art evokes humility and light in
the face of oppression and loss * O Magazine *
A loving, thoughtful, grueling novel * Washington Post *
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 *
McCann's epic involving novel follows the slow-blooming friendship
between two men, an Israeli and Palestinian, linked by the loss of
their daughters -- Sarah Hughes * 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
The latest novel from the National Book Award winner blends fiction
with history to examine how two men channel their grief into
political power as they become advocates for peace in the Middle
East * TIME Magazine *
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