{"product_id":"9781554689941","title":"Apeirogon : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Colum McCann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom celebrated Irish writer Colum McCann comes a dazzling new novel set in Occupied Palestine and Israel. In an astonishing act of the imagination, McCann illuminates the political situation that has riven the region for more than seventy years in a completely new light. Using a fascinating blend of real events and people, he fictionalizes their stories. As the author says, “This is a hybrid novel with invention at its core, a work of storytelling which, like all storytelling, weaves together elements of speculation, memory, fact and imagination.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCann tells the story of Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, and how they came together after the terrible loss of both of their daughters, one to suicide bombers and the other to Israeli police. Parents from both sides who have lost loved ones gather together in a Parents Circle to tell their stories, to heal, and to never forget their unimaginable losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeploying a myriad of seemingly unrelated historical, cultural and biographical snapshots, this highly original and inventive novel reframes the never-ending Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The result is a breath-taking narrative based on events that actually happened. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCann says, “Bassam and Rami have allowed me to shape and reshape their worlds. Despite these liberties, I hope to remain true to the actual realities of their shared experiences.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/em\u003e is a completely mesmerizing novel. Driven by a compelling voice, Colum McCann has written a powerful and haunting narrative that is simply masterful in its universal implications. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“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.” \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Colum McCann loves a high-wire act, and \u003cem\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/em\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e“Distinguished by empathy and intelligence, this transformative novel marks a new threshold of writing about the conflict. Colum McCann manages to take it all in without prejudice and with profound feeling for the suffering of all sides. \u003cem\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/em\u003e will have a potent effect on all those who read it and, remarkably, could lead to great consequences for the future of this place.”\u003cbr\u003e“Every significant novel is an act of reckless originality. Colum McCann’s\u003cem\u003e Apeirogon \u003c\/em\u003eis nothing like any book you’ve ever read. Think of reading David Mitchell’s \u003cem\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/em\u003e, Anne Carson’s \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Red, \u003c\/em\u003eor George Saunders’s \u003cem\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time. 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.”\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wondrous book. In an accretion of splendid detail, McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity as he describes the age-old story of inhumanity to man. The effect is absolutely staggering, it will bring you to your knees. Writing at the top of his game, McCann brings us a book that we sorely need. It left me hopeful; this is its gift. What a read -- !\u003cbr\u003e\"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. . . .\u003cem\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/em\u003e is visceral and devastating, yes; but it is also 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eApeirogon\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of profound empathy with the struggle of ordinary people in conflict. Without moral judgement McCann writes of ruthless oppression and it’s  opposition. . . . The mirror he holds up is a stark  truthful one and we will see ourselves reflected if we care to look. . . .This is a stunningly well written book. Courageous and necessary, truthful and ultimately hopeful, this may be Colum McCann’s masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A soaring, ambitious triumph. . . a sprawling masterpiece. . . .McCann’s latest novel might be his finest yet.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Masterful. . . .  Balancing its dazzling intellectual breadth with moments of searing intimacy, this is a transformative vision of a historic conflict and a triumph of the novelist’s art.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternational Dublin Literary Award, Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award, Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781554689941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":41108243087566,"sku":"9781554689941","price":26.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9781554689941.jpg?v=1649650474","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781554689941","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}