![]() ![]() He discovers startling connections while pondering weaponry and poetry, migrating birds and explorers, torture and checkpoints, the music of John Cage and Phillip Petit walking for peace on a tightrope over Jerusalem. ![]() Each is exquisite and haunting, many are harrowing, and together they form an entrancing and unnerving associative collage of fact, memory, observation, and invention. McCann meshes the actual and the imagined in concise, numbered passages totaling 1,001 in homage to the Arabian Nights. Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan are real people, and the stories of how Abir Aramin and Smadar Elhanan were killed, and of how Bassam and Rami became peace activists and border-defying friends, are true. Here McCann portrays two fathers, one Palestinian, the other Israeli, each mourning a young daughter who died in the region's persistent, senseless bloodshed. ![]() In his National Book Award-winner, Let the Great World Spin (2009), two women from opposite ends of the social spectrum lost sons in the Vietnam War. Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 December #1 *Starred Review* An apeirogon is "a shape with a countably infinite number of sides," embodying the complexity McCann seeks to express in this tragic and transporting hybrid novel. ![]()
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