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Ebook About NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent • The New York Public Library • Library JournalFrom the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate. But their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers; a decade later, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. And yet, when they learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace—and with their one small act, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict. This extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the non-profit organization Narrative 4. McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world, by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another, perhaps others could too. With their blessing, and unprecedented access to their families, lives, and personal recollections, McCann began to craft Apeirogon, which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers’ moving story at its heart.Book Apeirogon: A Novel Review :
I so wanted to love this book, and there was much to admire about it, but it was ultimately disappointing. Colum McCann is a brilliant writer - his "Let the Great World Spin" is as good as anything written in the past 20 years.Apeirogon: defined as a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, approaching but not reaching a circle. The premise of this book is a nuanced depiction of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict; infirnite ways of examining the situation in order to foster understanding of the many points of view.The book is beautifully written, almost more poetry than prose. The structure of the book reflects the title and the the subject matter. It is divided into 1001 chapters/chapterlets of varying length, some only a line or two. The chapters are in no particular order - but ultimately describe a whole. They are on often seemingly unrelated topics: the migration and types of birds, the building of the pulpit in the Dome of the Rock, the exploration ot the River Jordan in the early 1800's, and of course chapters that further the story line. By the end it all makes sense. The use of words is beautiful, almost ethereal. I learned some new ones, besides Apeirogon. Satyagraha (passive political resistance as practiced by Gandhi), Clepsydra (a water clock), etc.And the story was uplifting, wonderful - like a fragrant flower growing out of a dung heap. Two men - Rami, a seventh generation Israeli and Bassam, a Palestinian who formerly spent seven years in jail for "terrorism" - each have young daughters murdered by the other side. Rami's daughter Smadar is blown up by a Palestinian suicide bomber during the second Intifada. And Bassam's daughter Abir is shot in the head with a rubber bullet during a "demonstration" by an Israeli soldier. Somehow the men are able to each find forgiveness for the other side. They form a friendship and spend their lives helping people find the ability to forgive, to empathise, to move forward. Through organizations such as the Parents Circle Family and Combatants of Peace, they foster acceptance and redemption.The problem I had with this book, and the strongest criticism that can be made of a book like this, is that it is one-dimensional. Fault is always Israeli. Obviously the little girl getting shot is a brutal over-reaction by the Israeli teen-aged soldier. But also the Israeli father, whose daughter is blown up by the Palestinian, holds only Israel to blame. It is the Occupation, always the Occupation, the Preoccupation with the Occupation. The Palestinians are only the oppressed, never at fault.In a book that purports to describe the infinite sides of a complex issue, there is never a mention of any Jewish right to a homeland. Thousands of years of Jewish history in and around Jerusalem, well before Mohammed, are never talked about. Only side references to the Holocaust, and no mention of a long history of persecution (that just might justify the need for a homeland), never a word about the accomplishments of the Israelis in making the desert bloom, increasing the prosperity and health and freedom for both Jews and Arabs who reside in Israel. Nothing about the contributions to technology making the world a better place, or the Jewish support championing the various causes of the oppressed world-wide. No mention of the Hamas charter to destroy Israel, or the BDS movement to delegitimize and ultimately eliminate Israel as its own nation.Israel is by no means perfect. A small nation, surrounded by enemies, with a history of brutal persecution around the world, that struggles to stay alive. Struggles to reconcile a Homeland for a religious group with the principles of Democracy. Struggles to do the right thing, while allowing itself to continue to exist.Apeirogon is a good but not great book. It depicts the Palestinian viewpoint beautifully with nuance and great sympathy. Not so the Israeli. Ultimately it is too one-dimensional to live up to its ambitions (or at least this reader's ambitions for it). The author has said this book is a hybrid. If so, it's a cross between a dragon and a dove.Two murdered young girls, Abir and Smadar, are at the center of a kaleidoscope, a swirl of fragmented yet connected experience and brilliant color, of the fragility and power of children, of the fragility and power of birds (one swan, we are told, can take out an airplane), of the powers of art, the heart-leap of daring in the face of annihilation. Of the grief of two fathers, who are real living people on opposing sides of a hideous war over a tiny strip of land. Against that war, they form "The Parents Circle." The requirements for membership? A dead child and the will to speak. What can you do when your child dies?This book is about what they do, their struggle to understand and yet to survive. It's about the struggle of birds, likewise, to fly, to survive. Of writers to illuminate, of painters to portray, so that something may survive. Of inventors to make weapons, of young soldiers to try not to die.By page twenty, you will loathe your species for its atrocities against living flesh and spirit; you will see what a rubber bullet can do to a child's skull. (You might even retrieve it use it to kill again.) How Semtex can paint a town square red. And what the clean-up crew must do to erase the atrocity. What exploding bats and burning babies and roasted larks (because the world belongs to all creatures) can do to your mind. You can't stand it! But you can't put it down.Then by page 50 or 60 - no, you are not inured to torment, but you will begin to find a breath of air, a bit of oxygen in the struggle, in memory, in shared grief. One of the fathers has a motorcycle, and I found myself relieved at the movement of the handle bars, the unevenness of the pavement. Lulling for a moment.And when at last the book has folded you completely inside itself, you may come to love what it says we can be and do, what artists and thinkers and children and birds have been and have done, and go on being and doing. Forgiveness is impossible. But hope is within our grasp.This book has the greatness of spirit I found in books as a child, but this one is for adults who want to love the lived-in world the way children, even in dire circumstances, seem able to do. To be able to sleep on the wing, like the frigatebird, to help our neighbor in the midst of a firefall. We want to, but we need an anchor, a guide to take us through the burning cities and forests and oceans around us."Epic"? What a cop-out. "Ambitious"? What is that but a sneer? Better just to say this is a book that is wholly itself, in which every word is right and rightly placed. It is as perfect as the falconer's hawks it describes. As potent as the Picasso dove that figures so often in its pages. Read Online Apeirogon: A Novel Download Apeirogon: A Novel Apeirogon: A Novel PDF Apeirogon: A Novel Mobi Free Reading Apeirogon: A Novel Download Free Pdf Apeirogon: A Novel PDF Online Apeirogon: A Novel Mobi Online Apeirogon: A Novel Reading Online Apeirogon: A Novel Read Online Colum McCann Download Colum McCann Colum McCann PDF Colum McCann Mobi Free Reading Colum McCann Download Free Pdf Colum McCann PDF Online Colum McCann Mobi Online Colum McCann Reading Online Colum McCannDownload Mobi Sea Fighter (The USS Cunningham Quartet Book 3) By James H. Cobb
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