This book will break your heart and make you re think how storytelling works. Apeirogon is visceral and devastating, yes but it is also 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. However, most prominent among the many, many ways Apeirogon triumphs is the vertiginous risk he takes with the novel form, disrupting time and space, so that the book appears to cohere, layer upon layer, out of thin air. What a read - !’ - Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer prize-winning author of Olive Kitteredgeĭevotees of Colum McCann will find Apeirogon teeming with everything they have come to expect from his work: 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. Writing at the top of his game, McCann brings us a book that we sorely need. The affect is absolutely staggering, it will bring you to your knees. In an accretion of splendid detail, McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity as he describes the age old story of inhumanity to man. 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.” -Michael Cunningham, New York Times bestselling author of The Snow Queen Colum McCann’s Apeirogonis nothing like any book you’ve ever read. Think of reading David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, or George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo for the first time. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. “Every significant novel is an act of reckless originality.
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