Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. Bassam and Rami on a train in Germany Abir, age 9 Smadar age 10 They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate. “Apeirogon - a shape with a countably infinite number of sides”Ĭolum McCann’s most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon-named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides-is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging.īassam Aramin is Palestinian. From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss.
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