Colum McCann’s new novel Apeirogon is based on the actual murder of two young girls, 13-year-old Smadar Elhanan who lost her life when three Palestinian suicide bombers exploded themselves on Ben ...

This masterfully considered if uneven study of gender and society cramps readers into the quarters of a 19th-century New England school for girls started by an academic, his twentysomething daughter, ...

Apeirogon is a beautifully written novel set in the West Bank, in the heat of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. The novel poignantly explores the impact of love, loss, war, hatred, reconciliation ...

Apeirogon: a shape with a countably infinite number of sides. With this figure — in the title, and then in expanding definitions — Colum McCann offers us a template for reading his new book, which is ...

“Apeirogon,” the latest novel from the National Book Award winner, delves into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of two grieving fathers. By Joumana Khatib “I’m a bit of a magpie,” ...

Based on the true-life friendship of two men whose daughters were killed in the Middle East, this novel buoys the heart In his 1985 Jerusalem prize acceptance speech, Milan Kundera spoke about the ...

In geometry, an apeirogon, or infinite polygon, is a shape with an endless but theoretically countable number of sides. Colum McCann’s new novel, which takes its title from this figure, is composed of ...

“My name is Rami Elhanan. I am the father of Smadar. I am a 67-year-old graphic designer, an Israeli, a Jew, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite.” “My name is Bassam Aramin, I am the father of Abir. I’m ...

A compendium of the conflict mixes fact with fiction to create a profound account of pain and healing Colum McCann’s odd and ambitious book contains almost 500 pages of fact and fiction about the ...

The passionate and profligately gifted Irish maximalist Colum McCann, whose novel “Let the Great World Spin” won the 2009 National Book Award, likes to use nouns as verbs. In the first hundred pages ...

Apeirogon by Colum McCann is published in hardback by Bloomsbury, priced £18.99 (ebook £11.43) APEIROGON is quite a feat. It is inspired by a real friendship between Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and ...

Apeirogon, by Colum McCann Apeirogon — a shape with a “countably infinite” number of sides — turns out to be an apt if obscure title for the latest from National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann ...