If you can read it without sobbing, you’re a monster * OBSERVER*Ī profound account of pain and healing * Guardian *Ĭolum McCann’s transcendent book is full of hundreds of thought-provoking, emotional segments … McCann turns these haunting true stories into engrossing fiction, and he does so with poetic power * .uk *Īpeirogon is an empathy engine, utterly collapsing the gulf between teller and listener … It achieves its aim by merging acts of imagination and extrapolation with historical fact. It is about grief and forgiveness, about family and politics. The latest novel from the National Book Award winner blends fiction with history to examine how two men channel their grief into political power as they become advocates for peace in the Middle East * TIME MAGAZINE *Ī work that is both spectacularly inventive and grounded in brutal fact. Two fathers, Israeli and Palestinian, both have lost daughters. Best book of 2020!Ī truly wonderful book. It is a beautifully written book which will make you wonder, think and cry. One by an Israeli bullet, the other by a Palestinian bomber.

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDSĬHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COMĪ novel based on a true story of two fathers whose daughters were killed.

WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS

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