Apeirogon and The Illness Lesson are dense novels worth sinking into: Review
two February novels — one from a beloved National Book Award winner, the other from a first-time novelist — that don’t make for breezy reads, exactly, but deliver poetic, thought-provoking journeys worth taking.— a shape with a “countably infinite” number of sides — turns out to be an apt if obscure title for the latest from National Book Award-winning author
: a kaleidoscopic, wildly ambitious hybrid of fact and fiction. Rooted in the true experience of two men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, both of whom lost young daughters in the ongoing conflict, McCann’s storytelling radiates outward to include everything from meditations on Middle Eastern geography and the history of birds to the last meal of a French president and the lost operas of the Holocaust.
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