![]() Apeirogon, recently long-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize,is the result. McCann returned to his New York home wanting to write more. ![]() ![]() McCann’s essay, Two Stories too Many was based on a visit to Beit Jala near Bethlehem to meet members of the organisation Combatants for Peace, in particular Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Rami Elhanan. In conversation with Mark Raphael Baker, he related being told “you think Ireland is complicated? You ought to come to the Middle East!” He has since travelled there many times and uses W B Yeats’ phrase “a terrible beauty” to describe what he sees.Īpeirogon’s source lies in Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers confront the Occupation, published in 2017 with contributors including Colm Tóibín, Geraldine Brooks and Mario Vargas Llosa. Colum McCann, the Irish a uthor of Apeirogon, A novel, was the focus of a Zoom session during the recent Melbourne Jewish Book Week. ![]()
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