First Advance Praise for Apeirogon
THE FIRST BLURBS ARE COMING IN FOR Colum McCann's APEIROGON ... SPREAD THE WORD!
The advance blurbs have started to come for Apeirogon (due out Feb 2020).
Colum says in a note: “I am deeply humbled by these endorsements. It’s overwhelming really. I spent so long on this book and it was a terrific journey, so I feel blessed to get such support.”
The novel -- which takes its name from a shape with a countably infinite number of sides -- tells the story of two men in the Middle East who lose their daughters. The men become the best of friends and they travel the world in order to share the “weapon of their grief.” The novel takes place in Israel and Palestine, but it could easily take place in the Bronx and Kentucky, or in Belfast and Limerick, or any number of places around the world.
And now the first blurbs have come in ..... from two massive icons of literature in the Middle East, Raja Shehadeh and Assaf Gavron.
Distinguished by empathy and intelligence, this transformative novel marks a new threshold of writing about the conflict. Colum McCann manages to take it all in without prejudice and with profound feeling for the suffering of all sides. Apeirogon will have a potent effect on all those who read it and, remarkably, could lead to great consequences for the future of this place.
-- Raja Shehadeh, author of “Palestinian Walks” and “Language of War, Language of Peace.”
“A work of incredible magnitude. McCann finds the emotional accuracy, the sensitivity, and the beauty to tell the heartbreaking reality of life in Israel-Palestine, while allowing readers a glimmer of necessary hope. It is greater than a novel in more than one sense, and will both touch and enrich readers, wherever they live and whatever they know about the region.
FROM ASSAF GAVRON, author of “The Hilltop”
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(We will be posting our apeirogonal news every Thursday/Friday up until publication)
The advance blurbs have started to come for Apeirogon (due out Feb 2020).
Colum says in a note: “I am deeply humbled by these endorsements. It’s overwhelming really. I spent so long on this book and it was a terrific journey, so I feel blessed to get such support.”
The novel -- which takes its name from a shape with a countably infinite number of sides -- tells the story of two men in the Middle East who lose their daughters. The men become the best of friends and they travel the world in order to share the “weapon of their grief.” The novel takes place in Israel and Palestine, but it could easily take place in the Bronx and Kentucky, or in Belfast and Limerick, or any number of places around the world.
And now the first blurbs have come in ..... from two massive icons of literature in the Middle East, Raja Shehadeh and Assaf Gavron.
Distinguished by empathy and intelligence, this transformative novel marks a new threshold of writing about the conflict. Colum McCann manages to take it all in without prejudice and with profound feeling for the suffering of all sides. Apeirogon will have a potent effect on all those who read it and, remarkably, could lead to great consequences for the future of this place.
-- Raja Shehadeh, author of “Palestinian Walks” and “Language of War, Language of Peace.”
“A work of incredible magnitude. McCann finds the emotional accuracy, the sensitivity, and the beauty to tell the heartbreaking reality of life in Israel-Palestine, while allowing readers a glimmer of necessary hope. It is greater than a novel in more than one sense, and will both touch and enrich readers, wherever they live and whatever they know about the region.
FROM ASSAF GAVRON, author of “The Hilltop”
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(We will be posting our apeirogonal news every Thursday/Friday up until publication)
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