Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colum McCann has made a career out of weaving fascinating, and at times surreal, real-life stories into his novels. Take for ...

Apeirogon — a shape with a “countably infinite” number of sides — turns out to be an apt if obscure title for the latest from National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) ...

“Apeirogon,” the latest novel from the National Book Award winner, delves into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of two grieving fathers. By Joumana Khatib See more of our coverage in ...

The passionate and profligately gifted Irish maximalist Colum McCann, whose novel “Let the Great World Spin” won the 2009 National Book Award, likes to use nouns as verbs. In the first hundred pages ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — Award-winning author Colum McCann’s anticipated new novel, ‘Apeirogon,’ tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two bereaved fathers born into opposite sides of the ...

“My name is Rami Elhanan. I am the father of Smadar. I am a 67-year-old graphic designer, an Israeli, a Jew, a seventh-generation Jerusalemite.” “My name is Bassam Aramin, I am the father of Abir. I’m ...

Amblin Nabs Israeli-Palestinian Friendship Novel ‘Apeirogon’ (Exclusive) Coming off the success of World War I epic '1917,' Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners is set to delve into the Middle East ...

Irish-born writer Colum McCann’s new book, “Apeirogon,” is classified as a novel — yet parts of it are factual. “Really, it’s a story like any story. Some of it’s imagined but all of it is real,” said ...

Apeirogon. By Colum McCann. Random House; 480 pages; $28. Bloomsbury; £18.99. COLUM MCCANN’S new novel refers at one point to the “Jerusalem Syndrome”: the messianic delusions that “proximity to the ...

McCann, an international best-selling author whose 2009 novel “Let the Great World Spin” won the National Book Award, supports his apeirogon metaphor through the myriad, ostensibly tangential ...