Apeirogon - Colum McCann
Category: Bestsellers
Narrator: Colum McCann
Tags: Bestsellers, Historical Fiction, Literature
Longlisted for The 2020 Booker Prize, A New York Times best seller, 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, 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. Ramis license plate is yellow. Bassams 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. Ramis 13-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassams 10-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 hadnt had time to eat yet., The men become the best of friends., I
