Colum and his upcoming Apeirogon profiled in the WSJ
In a new profile from The Wall Street Journal, Colum shares the origins of his new novel, Apeirogon, and discusses "radical empathy."
"Colum McCann’s sweeping new novel has a simple origin. 'I had my heart blown open,' he explains in his soft Irish brogue, alluding to a poem by his countryman Seamus Heaney : 'As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways / And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.' What had struck Mr. McCann so forcefully were two stories he heard in 2015 in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, just south of Jerusalem."
Pre-order your copy here before the novel is released on Feb. 25th: http://colummccann.com/apeirogon/
Read the article: http://bit.ly/mccannwsj
"Colum McCann’s sweeping new novel has a simple origin. 'I had my heart blown open,' he explains in his soft Irish brogue, alluding to a poem by his countryman Seamus Heaney : 'As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways / And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.' What had struck Mr. McCann so forcefully were two stories he heard in 2015 in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, just south of Jerusalem."
Pre-order your copy here before the novel is released on Feb. 25th: http://colummccann.com/apeirogon/
Read the article: http://bit.ly/mccannwsj
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