The Jewish refugees, larger in number than the Palestinian refugees, were forced to leave their homes and possessions in the Arab world, often after experiencing extremely brutal treatment. By linking the creation of the Palestinian refugees to the Holocaust, a common practice by Westerners ( for example Barack Obama in his JCairo speech “A New Beginning”), McCann neglects to mention that the establishment of the State of Israel resulted in the creation of two refugee populations, an Arab one and a Jewish one. In spite of its title, Apeirogon does not present all aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) Book tells story of Israeli, Palestinian men who lost daughters in war - The Jerusalem Post ^ 'Novel Of the Year Award Shortlist 2021'.^ 'Prix Médicis : Éric Reinhardt, Camille de Toledo et Hervé Le Tellier dans la deuxième sélection, Emmanuel Carrère n'y figure plus'.'Prix littéraires étrangers : le palmarès des Echos'. ^ Chevilley, Philippe Lesniak, Isabelle (4 December 2020).'Booker Prize 2020: Colum McCann on longlist heavy with debuts and US authors'. 'Apeirogon: Another colonialist misstep in commercial publishing'. 'Fatherhood, loss, and healing in Colum McCann's 'Apeirogon' '. 'TColum McCann's 'Apeirogon' takes an elliptical approach to the unending Middle East conflict'. Shoiab Alam, writing in The Daily Star, hailed the novel as 'a masterful and timely literary response to region's neverending horrors.' However, the international best-selling Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa calls it 'Another colonialist misstep in commercial publishing' that 'mystifies the colonisation of Palestine as a ‘complicated conflict’ between two equal sides'.

Charles Finch in The Washington Post described the book as 'a loving, thoughtful, grueling novel. Reviews for the book have been generally positive.

Consisting of 1001 short sections, the two central figures bond over the untimely deaths of their respective daughters.

The story follows two real life figures: Rami Elhanan, an Israeli graphic designer, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian scholar and previous political prisoner. It follows the story of two men who each lost a daughter. The novel explores the conflict in the Middle East. Apeirogon is a novel by Colum McCann, published in February 2020.

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