Apeirogon

Two fathers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, each having lost a daughter to violence, anchor Colum McCann's Apeirogon, a novel assembled from fragments rather than told in a straight line. Rami and Bassam meet in grief and build a friendship that becomes the book's steady centre. McCann arranges the material in short numbered sections that move between reportage, invention and historical detail, so the reading experience accumulates rather than advances. The result sits between fiction and documentary, and its structure is as much the point as its subject: identity, memory and the repetition of loss across a contested landscape. What sets it apart: • Built from short numbered sections that can be read as a mosaic • Draws on real people and real events connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict • Handles grief and reconciliation without simplifying either side • Written by the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin Suited to readers of politically engaged literary fiction and experimental narrative form, this Bloomsbury edition is available at Boipoka.