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Apeirogon
- Narrated by: Colum McCann
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents Apeirogon by Colum McCann, read by Colum McCann.
Longlisted for The 2020 Booker Prize
A New York Times best seller
A BBC Book of 2020
Chosen as a Book of The Year by The Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, I Paper, Financial Times, New Statesman, Scotsman, Irish Times, BBC.com, Waterstones.com
The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief.
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another – yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami’s license plate is yellow. Bassam’s license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.
Both men have lost their daughters. Rami’s 13-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam’s 10-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn’t had time to eat yet.
The men become the best of friends.
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. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the novel for our times.
Critic reviews
"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)
"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)
"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)
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-09-21
Brilliant
What a wonderful way to tell the most awful yet redemptive of storys. A privilege to read
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- studywart
- 25-06-21
Great book
This book has stayed with me - a very sensitive story beautifully told. A fabulous read!
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- Matthew Buckle
- 25-07-21
Incredible.
A phenomenal work. I have the hard copy too but the reading by the author is fantastic.
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- R. D. Rosengarten
- 09-03-24
Oi Colum
Beautifully nuanced book about a complex topic. Reading poetic in authors own voice but of, Colum, if you’re going to be saying foreign words, please consult someone so you get them right-chamsin, Nurit, Yael. kefiyeh. And many other words in Hebrew repeatedly mis-said. Annoyingly disruptive
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- Waggy From Derby
- 13-05-20
eye. opening and hopeful
being already aware of the Palestinian & Israeli problems, I never thought an answer could be found. This book could be the start of that answer and those of similar problems elsewhere in the world. Being sympathetic to how Palestinians are treated by the occupying Israeli's does not make me an Israeli or Jew hate, I am not. I wish both sides would sit down and read this book, listen, to each other, talk and settle their problems. The Israeli's don't have to leave, just to compromise and stop treating Palestinians as terrorists. The Palestinians have to accept the Israeli's need a home land. Compromise and understand for all our sakes.
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- Colin
- 20-04-21
a must read/listen to
an excellent background study to the israeli/palestinian struggle. Easy to read intermittentlu...put it down and you will want to soon pick it up.
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- Mr. R. Mcintosh
- 25-02-23
Powerful and important
This is a so good. Important story, powerful writing and wonderfully read by the author.
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- Stephen
- 12-04-24
Turning grief into something constructive
Both protagonists, whose lives are intertwined despite the deep divisions in that society, have found a way to turn their grief into something constructive.This neo-journalism novel is well constructed and gives a poignant insight into the complexities of the issues that divide the Palestinian people and the Jewish population in Israel /Palestine. Highly recommended.
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- susan aldridge
- 06-05-21
Unexpected perfection.
This audiobook was so wonderful in every way that I went out and bought the book!
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- Connor Mc Cann
- 13-03-23
Good Recommendation
The Palestine, Israeli conflict is something that I have been always been interested in. In respect to how in such a short period of time, the excuse of national security can be used bring misery on so many on both sides. The book left me hopeful that there is willingness for peace, but that has to be nurtured carefully until such times It can stand on its own.
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