{"product_id":"apeirogon-a-novel-9780593207819","title":"Apeirogon: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  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  author of Home Fire  FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD  LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE  WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD  NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent  The New York Public Library  Library Journal  From the National Book Awardwinning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers.  Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. 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.  But their lives  however circumscribed  are upended one after the other: first  Ramis thirteen-year-old daughter  Smadar  becomes the victim of suicide bombers; a decade later  Bassams ten-year-old daughter  Abir  is killed by a rubber bullet. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. And yet  when they learn of each others stories  they recognize the loss that connects them. Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peaceand with their one small act  start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict.  This extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the non-profit organization Narrative 4. McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world  by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another  perhaps others could too.  With their blessing  and unprecedented access to their families  lives  and personal recollections  McCann began to craft Apeirogon  which uses their real-life stories to begin anotherone that crosses centuries and continents  stitching together time  art  history  nature  and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel  crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material  with these fathers moving story at its heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529565626421,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593207815","price":70.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593207819.jpg?v=1780937937","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/apeirogon-a-novel-9780593207819","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}