But it's undisputably a novel, and, to my mind, an exceedingly important one. It achieves its aim by merging acts of imagination and extrapolation with historical fact. Apeirogon is an empathy engine, utterly collapsing the gulf between teller and listener. 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 “Brilliant. Delirious and thrilling, spectacular” – Sunday Times “Weaves documentary and imagination into its tough physical fabric. It's an important book” – MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, “Now you have to read Apeirogon. All I can really tell you is, read McCann's book. 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. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the novel for our times. 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. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. 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. 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. The novel of a lifetime about two men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief. 'An essential hymn to peace and forgiveness' .uk 'Nothing like any book you've ever read' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM 'You have to read Apeirogon' Sunday Times
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