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Apeirogon review5/8/2023 Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, it is a book for our times from a writer at the height of his powers. 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. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member ofthe border police outside her school. Smadar, la fille de Rami, meurt dans un attentat-suicide perpétré par des kamikazes palestiniens. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. À défaut de 'bord plat', il nous reste l apeirogon, cette figure géométrique dotée dune infinité de facettes qui donne son titre au roman sans jamais en amoindrir la densité émotionnelle. But they are ultimately united, by conflict and by grief. They are divided by experience, work, life, and of course nation. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.īoth men have lost their daughters. The highly anticipated novel from treasured son of Dublin/ multiple award-winning writer Colum McCann is an account of two fathers one Israeli, one Palestinian. 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. 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 'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
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