![]() McCann, acclaimed author of “TransAtlantic” and the National Book Award-winning “Let the Great World Spin,” has taken for his subject the countably infinite facets of the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum, as embodied in the stories of two real-world characters, Bassam Aramin, a 52-year-old Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, a 70-year-old Israeli Jew.īoth men have played a part in the seemingly intractable violence of their homeland: Bassam as a teenager jailed for seven years for a grenade attack on an Israeli jeep Rami as a soldier in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. With this figure - in the title, and then in expanding definitions - Colum McCann offers us a template for reading his new book, which is a novel but not in any traditional sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Apeirogon: a shape with a countably infinite number of sides. ![]()
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