Apeirogon: a novel about Israel, Palestine and shared grief, nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize
Autor Colum McCannen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2021
Tradus din limba engleză, romanul Apeirogon ne propune o experiență literară care sfidează definițiile clasice, aducând în limba română o polifonie de sensuri unde pierderea devine limbaj universal. Considerăm că forța acestei cărți rezidă în refuzul de a simplifica o realitate istorică sângeroasă, alegând în schimb să exploreze infinitul de fațete al durerii umane. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Colum McCann transformă datele biografice a doi bărbați reali — Bassam Aramin și Rami Elhanan — într-o structură hibridă, compusă din 1001 de fragmente ce oglindesc tradiția „O mie și una de nopți”. Premisa este de o cruzime simetrică: ambii tați își pierd fiicele, pe Smadar și Abir, în vârtejul conflictului israeliano-palestinian, însă aleg să folosească doliul nu ca pe un zid, ci ca pe o punte. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la City of a Thousand Gates, de Rebecca Sacks, prin multitudinea de perspective care compun tabloul Cisiordaniei, deși stilul lui McCann este mult mai experimental, pendulând între ornitologie, istoria armamentului și reflecție filozofică. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de abordarea mai liniară din Dancer sau de realismul urban din This Side of Brightness, aici autorul atinge o maturitate stilistică ce amintește de tehnica mozaicului din Let the Great World Spin. Ritmul lecturii este dictat de aceste flash-uri de informație și emoție, construind o narațiune despre cum empatia poate perfora un conflict ce pare, de generații, impermeabil.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1526607891
Pagini: 463
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm Apeirogon celor care caută în literatură mai mult decât o poveste, ci o înțelegere profundă a condiției umane în zone de conflict. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nuanțată asupra realităților din Israel și Palestina, dincolo de titlurile de știri. Este o lecție despre puterea radicală a ascultării și a prieteniei, ideală pentru publicul care a apreciat „Vânătorul de zmeie” sau proza documentară de înaltă ținută.
Despre autor
Colum McCann, născut în Dublin și stabilit în New York, este unul dintre cei mai apreciați scriitori contemporani, fiind distins cu National Book Award pentru Let the Great World Spin. Opera sa, tradusă în peste patruzeci de limbi, explorează adesea intersecția dintre destinele individuale și marile evenimente istorice. Pe lângă cariera literară, McCann este co-fondator al organizației Narrative 4, prin care promovează schimbul de povești ca instrument de schimbare socială, filozofie care stă la baza genezei romanului Apeirogon.
Descriere
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD
WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM
'A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout
'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review
'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie
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How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live?
Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem - but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict. And yet they have one thing in common. Both are fathers; both are fathers of daughters - and both daughters are now lost.
When Rami and Bassam meet, and tell one another the story of their grief, the most unexpected thing of all happens: they become best of friends. And their stories become one story, a story with the power to heal - and the power to change the world.
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'The book goes anywhere and everywhere. It is a delirious and thrilling improvisation, a jazz solo spun out of that meeting . A spectacular structure of stories about everything' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
Recenzii
A profound account of pain and healing
Colum 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
Apeirogon 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. But it's undisputably a novel, and, to my mind, an exceedingly important one. It does far more than make an argument for peace; it is, itself, an agent of change
Nothing like any book you've ever read ... Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. Think about feeling that the very idea of the novel, of what it can be and what it's capable of containing, has been expanded, forever ... All I can really tell you is, read McCann's book. It's an important book
Now you have to read Apeirogon ... Delirious and thrilling, spectacular
Weaves documentary and imagination into its tough physical fabric . .. Frequently beautiful . Often dazzles . At the core of this fractal fiction is a simple, radiant myth: "The hero makes a friend of his enemy"
A jagged, fractured, teeming novel . Apeirogon is a daring structural feat, a conspicuously elaborate and multivalent piece of novelistic engineering . The distilled and fractured form has a glistening poetry
In the spirit of Picasso's Guernica, Apeirogon reminds us that such incandescent art evokes humility and light in the face of oppression and loss
A loving, thoughtful, grueling novel
Powerful novel about the shared grief of a Palestinian and Israeli
The tale of a friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian . Composed of 1,001 chapters, it has won effusive praise from early readers
Colum McCann seems to shape-shift with each new book; Apeirogon examines the friendship between Israeli and Palestinian fathers who have each lost children to the conflict
His most ambitious work yet, chronicling the human cost of the Israeli Palestinian conflict in a tale of love and loss that crosses fiction and non-fiction
A novel inspired by a true story about two men - one Israeli and one Palestinian - who both lost daughters in the conflict and who form an unexpected friendship
McCann's epic, involving novel follows the slow-blooming friendship between two men, an Israeli and a Palestinian, linked by the loss of their daughters
The advance word on this novel suggests a level of ambition we may not have encountered yet from the Dublin native. It explores the Palestine-Israel conflict through the unlikely friendship of two men from either side
A glorious storytelling hybrid . Apeirogon is a brilliant novel, formally intriguing, profoundly human
A masterpiece of characterisation and subtle political commentary
Teeming with gorgeous prose; a sweeping look at the paradoxical relationship between history and private life; a penetrating examination of the deficiencies and marvels of the human spirit ... Propulsive, muscular, swerving through details of life - real and imagined - with urgency, borne along on prose that is some of McCann's finest, fully displaying his powers as a storyteller of just about supernatural ability. This book will break your heart and make you rethink how storytelling works
A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart
Distinguished by empathy and intelligence, this book marks a new threshold of writing ... Apeirogon will have a strong effect on all those who read it and, remarkably, could lead to great consequences for the future of this place. Sometimes books can do this
A work of incredible magnitude. McCann finds the emotional accuracy, the sensitivity, and the beauty to tell the heartbreaking reality of life in Israel-Palestine, while allowing readers a glimmer of necessary hope. It is greater than a novel in more than one sense, and will both touch and enrich readers, wherever they live and whatever they know about the region
Colum McCann loves a high-wire act, and Apeirogon is a powerful, political tightrope walk of a novel. It's the story of modern Israel and the story of modern Palestine. This beautiful, deeply felt book is first and foremost an extraordinary act of listening
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