For the most part, American readers have rejected the notion that any one writer can tell about an event they had to live through. And yet the dream of a novel that unifies the culture around an event that wound up cleaving it is just another of those things that hasn't quite worked out for this country in the Un-American Century. Before the bone fragments were harvested from Ground Zero, or any of the accidental monuments desanctified by their eventual inclusion in a Staten Island landfill, writers of American fiction were challenged to write about the Day Everything Changed. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our time.We are familiar by now with the 9/11 novel - with the idea of it, anyway. 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. 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 - 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. 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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