May 14—Colum McCann cracks open the rib cage of Palestinian-Israeli violence in his excruciating novel "Apeirogon." Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction, the Irish American author ...

McCann is the author of seven novels, most recently Apeirogon, three short story collections, and the recipient of a National Book Award. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story ...

An apeirogon is a shape with an infinite but countable number of sides, and over the course of the book’s 1,001 chapters — a nod to “One Thousand and One Nights” — McCann delves into the ...

From Apeirogon, published this month by Random House. The book is a fictionalized account of the lives of Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli. Aramin’s ten-year-old daughter, ...

Bloomsbury; £18.99. COLUM MCCANN’S new novel refers at one point to the “Jerusalem Syndrome”: the messianic delusions that “proximity to the holy places” can induce in pilgrims to the city.

Colum McCann's new novel, Twist, tracks a group at sea tasked with repairing the underwater cables through which we all communicate. Below, the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great ...

How Colum McCann Shaped Loss Into a Book “Apeirogon,” the latest novel from the National Book Award winner, delves into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of two grieving fathers.