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
*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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