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Apeirogon - Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize (Hardcover)
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Apeirogon - Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R512
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX
MÉDICIS AND THE PRIX FEMINA WINNER OF THE PRIX DE MEILLEUR LIVRE
ETRANGER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC BOOK OF 2020 CHOSEN AS A
BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER,
FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM,
WATERSTONES.COM ‘A wondrous book. It left me hopeful’ Elizabeth
Strout ‘You have to read Apeirogon’ Sunday Times ‘Nothing
like any book you’ve ever read’ Michael Cunningham ‘Quite
extraordinary’ Kamila Shamsie The novel of a lifetime about two
men and their daughters: divided by conflict, yet united in grief.
Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another – yet they
exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian.
Rami’s license plate is yellow. Bassam’s license plate is
green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The
same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half. Both men have
lost their daughters. Rami’s thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was
killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends.
Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a
member of the border police outside her school. There was a candy
bracelet in her pocket she hadn’t had time to eat yet. The men
become the best of friends. In this epic novel – named for a
shape with a countably infinite number of sides – Colum McCann
crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history,
nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and
belonging. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is
the novel for our times. '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
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