Apeirogon

ELLEN AKINS, THE STAR TRIBUNE

"...Pieced together in a sort of narrative pastiche...facts and features and events are told and retold, alluded to and expanded on, until we have seen them from so many angles that the picture they finally make seems at once comprehensively complete and incomprehensibly complex ... The associations that Apeirogon suggests are inescapable, of course, not random at all, but as wide as they ripple and as heady as they sometimes seem, they always come back to the book's human heart, two grieving fathers and the power of their love in the face of countably infinite odds..."

LAUREN BUFFERD, BOOKPAGE

"... ambitious ... As in earlier novels, McCann mixes history and fiction, shifting narrators, place and time into a seamless though sprawling whole ... McCann's protagonists believe that if a country's commitment to peace leads the way, the most complex politics will sort themselves out. Apeirogon makes space for this belief, a placeholder for a future where irreparable loss transforms violence, where grief leads to reconciliation..."