![]() ![]() These two parts, one for each man, presumably resemble the lectures these men are traveling around the world to give, to show how peace and friendship can evolve from even the worst circumstances. ![]() He further explains that Rami and Bassam have allowed him "to shape and reshape their words and worlds," which of course is necessary for a novel, but also a little unsettling as that's then always in the back of our minds: "What here is real?"įor that reason, for me, the best part of this nearly 500 page novel is the 30 page section right in the middle when McCann lets Rami and Bassam tell their stories in their own words. These men are real people, as McCann tells us in his author's note. (If "countably infinite" sounds like an oxymoron to you too, well, you also must've missed that day in advanced geometry.)īut beyond the literary calculus, there is also a pretty fascinating story here: It's about an Israeli man named Rami and a Palestinian man named Bassam who both have lost daughters to violence. In total, it's a novel about mathematics, music, silence, water, borders, birds, violence, grief, peace, and about a hundred other things.īut to back up and clear up the first question: An apeirogon is a shape with a "countably infinite number of sides" - essentially what appears to be a circle. It's a novel told in 1,001 sections, each sometimes a few pages, sometimes a single sentence. Colum McCann's new novel Apeirogon is certainly ambitious. ![]()
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