Apeirogon amazon6/23/2023 And yet, when they learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. 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. 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. Library Journal From 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. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent.WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD. 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
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