![]() ![]() The friendship of Bassam and Rami is a thing of great and sustaining beauty. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, it is a book for our times from a writer at the height of his powers. For all its grief, Apeirogon is a novel that buoys the heart. 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. In his new novel, Apeirogon, award-winning Irish writer Colum McCann has created a morally and aesthetically imaginative portrayal of the extent to which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has wreaked havoc on innocent human beings on both sides. ![]() There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet. Please educate yourself and read this book it is a stunner Don’t forget to tune your mind, spirit, and heart to Bassam and Rami when they give a speech regarding the experiences they shared when their daughters died. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member ofthe border police outside her school. Well, Apeirogon is here at the least to make some cracks in the wall. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.īoth men have lost their daughters. ![]() 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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