
Apeirogon
Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
McCann Colum
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF
2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL
TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM,
WATERSTONES.COM
'Nothing like any book you've
ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
'An essential hymn to peace and
forgiveness' independent.co.uk
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 thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a
suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-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.
'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
Proizvod je dostupan: | NE |
Izdavač: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
ISBN: | 9781526607911 |
Godina izdanja: | 2020 |
Broj stranica: | 480 |
Težina: | 400 |
Tip uveza: | paperback |

O autoru
Colum McCann je rođen u Dublinu 1965. Autor je romana Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness i Songdogs, međunarodnih bestselera, te dvije zbirke pripovjedaka koje je kritika visoko ocijenila.
Njegovi romani su prevedeni na trideset jezika. Magazin Esquire ga je proglasio piscem godine 2003, a njegov kratki film Everything in This Country Must je 2005. bio nominovan za Oscara.
Dobitnik je nagrada Pushcart, Rooney, Irish Novel of the Year i mnogih drugih.
Živi i radi u New Yorku.
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