He is the cofounder of the global non-profit story exchange organisation Narrative 4. He has also received a Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres from the French government. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Irish association of artists, Aosdana. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent.Ĭolum has won numerous international awards and has been a bestseller on four continents. His fiction has been published in over 40 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review and other places. “Let the Great World Spin” won the National Book Award in 2009. His other books include 'TransAtlantic,' 'Let the Great World Spin,' 'This Side of Brightness,''Dancer' and “Zoli,” all of which were international best-sellers. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our time.Ĭolum McCann is the author of three collections of short stories and six novels, including 'Apeirogon,' due to be published in Spring 2020. He crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. McCann crafts Apeirogon out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material. When Bassam and Rami learn of each other's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate.

From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss.Ĭolum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon-named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides-is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging.īassam Aramin is Palestinian.

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