Apeirogon

Locations
Call Number: BOCD Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / McCann, Colum
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / McCann, Colum	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / McCann, Colum	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / McCann, Colum	4-week checkout	Due 05-06-2024

Compact discs.
Read by the author.
"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly crowds, and again when thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn one another's stories and the loss that connects them, they become part of a much larger tale that ranges over centuries and continents. Apeirogon is a novel that balances on the knife edge of fiction and nonfiction. Bassam and Rami are real men and their actual words are a part of this narrative, one that builds through thousands of moments and images into one grand, unforgettable crescendo"-- Provided by publisher.

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COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Treat yourself to the audiobook submitted by hoppingfun on October 21, 2021, 12:48pm McCann is an outstanding writer, fresh and beautiful and thoughtful in the way he unfolds a human tale, planting details like little seeds of poetry. He narrates the audiobook in a soft, breathy Irish lilt that captures the cadence of this book, which has 1,001 chapters, some of them just a phrase or a fact, and welcome digressions into migratory birds and ordnance and Borges, and The Arabian Nights. At the core is the aching story of two fathers who have lost a child. (Also recommend: Let The Great World Spin audio, a very different tale of lives in NYC intersecting on a single, extraordinary day. )