The two unlikely friends travel telling their stories to audiences across the world. The now of the novel is set after both events, against the backdrop of Bassam’s and Rami’s work as part of the Parents Circle, an organisation for people who have lost relatives to the conflict. Ten years later, in 2007, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Apeirogon is their story.īassam’s ten-year-old Abir had just bought a candy bracelet from the shop across the street from her school when the back of her skull was shattered by a rubber bullet from the border police patrolling outside. One Palestinian, the other Israeli, the wall between the two had been brought down after they each lost a daughter. His breaking point arrived when he met Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan. He struggled with the omnipresence of the seemingly never-ending Israel-Palestine conflict but thought he could weather it, having witnessed the war-torn Northern Ireland and Sarajevo. The inception of the novel goes back to five years ago when McCann was wandering around the Middle East. Colum McCann’s Apeirogon makes, very, very boring reviewing. The most exhilarating reviews to write are those where you can bring a book down, even if it’s just a tiny bit for an odd stylistic mishap the boring ones are those where you can’t fault anything.
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