Apeirogon

Hardcover

Published Aug. 25, 2020 by Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-6960-6
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4 stars (6 reviews)

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Review of 'Apeirogon' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This was a book club book
I am left with many mixed feelings about it. The organization and format is absolutely horrid! The story itself had to be sifted and filtered out through the many mini-thoughts/explanations/inserts. It's about two men who each lost a daughter to violence in Israel/Palestine (10 years apart), and they each had to find a way to both deal with it and help heal the entire situation for themselves and others.
The methods of dealing are admirable, but the overall thing – both grief and the entire situation – is miserable.
I know that the overall rating of this book is pretty good, and there were even to members of our book club who really liked it, but the rest of us found the torment and organization too distracting at best.

Review of 'Apeirogon' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

A lot of what appealed to me about this book is the structure and the meta-fictional tricks. Exactly up my alley. I couldn’t help getting the occasional whiff of Richard Powers and the quotes from Borges were there, but in a “I know I’m not Borges so I’m not going to pretend” kind of way. This is perhaps the only way to tell the kind of stories McCann sets out to tell here.

Review of 'Apeirogon' on 'LibraryThing'

5 stars

This is a transcendental novel.returnreturnIt expands over the regular, over nuance, and over time. It also bends fiction and nonfiction to weave several arcs into one, not that it makes this book difficult or complicated.returnreturnThe book focuses on the friendship between an Israeli man and a Palestinian man, their respective deaths in the families, and of how life works for most people; I'm being fuzzy, but the book—as well as human life—is; this book throws more nuance into the picture than most do, which is quite a feat, considering that this is all about human beings in Palestine and Israel.returnreturnThis book engrossed and changed me. It's that big.returnreturnThere are no other words that I can use to review the book other than say it's very human and beautifully pieced together; the book consists of 1,001 chapters. It's a marvellous and daring feat to write a book in this way, but …

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