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Apeirogon: Longlisted for the 2020 Booker…
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Apeirogon: Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize (edição 2021)

por Colum McCann (Autor)

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"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly crowds, and again when thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn one another's stories and the loss that connects them, they become part of a much larger tale that ranges over centuries and continents. Apeirogon is a novel that balances on the knife edge of fiction and nonfiction. Bassam and Rami are real men and their actual words are a part of this narrative, one that builds through thousands of moments and images into one grand, unforgettable crescendo"--… (mais)
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Título:Apeirogon: Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
Autores:Colum McCann (Autor)
Informação:Bloomsbury Publishing (2021), Edition: 01, 480 pages
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An “apeirogon” is “a shape with a countably infinite number of sides.” And Apeirogon, the novel, is a story with a countably infinite number of tellings, depending on the teller, and the day, and the synergies. The story takes place in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and brings together two men – 67-year-old Jewish graphic designer Rami Elhanan and Palestinian Bassam Aramin, who survived seven years in an Israeli jail. Coping with grief over the senseless killing of their daughters draws them together. Rami’s teenage daughter, Smadar, was killed in a suicide bombing in 1997. Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, was felled by a rubber bullet shot by Israeli soldiers in a truck passing by as she and her friends came from the store where she bought a candy bracelet. The two men work through the grief that unites them in the Parents Circle-Family Forum, made up of parents and other relatives on both sides of the ever-present conflict who lost their loved ones. But my summary could never do justice to the exquisite prose, the sensitivity and skill McCann has in making tangible the agonies of these men living always with both the unbearable loss of their daughters and the omnipresent reality of the occupation, which he beautifully described as “the rim of a tightening lung.”

A bit about the structure of the novel. There are, in essence, 1,001 chapterlets that do not unfold in a linear fashion but are logical. Some are one sentence long; others go on for pages. They tell the central story; they go off on wonderfully informative tangents. The middle of the book is where we get the full story of each of the protagonists – in chapter 1001, which is both preceded and succeeded by chapter 500. The chapterlets in the first half of the book are numbered 1 to 500, and in the second half of the book are numbered backwards from 500 to 1. I assume the 1,001 was a nod to 1,001 Arabian Nights, which he mentions a couple of times in the book. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
There were more wars, yes, but there were always wars weren't there. This was the price people had to pay."

This is the story (Fiction/Nonfiction, not sure which parts are which) of the friendship between two very different men. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. In 1997 his 13 year old daughter was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers in Jerusalem. Balsam Aramin is Palestinian. In 2007 his 10 year old daughter Abir was shot by and Israeli in the back of the head with rubber bullet after she emerged from a candy store on her way to school. How does a parent react and ever recover from the loss of a child by such violence? The two men come together frequently to tell their stories all over the world, in the hopes that one day the violence will end.

The book is arranged in 1001 short "chapters" or shards, some only a sentence or two long. It is at times difficult to read, and images have stuck with me--the eyeball on the awning, the wind chimes made of teargas canisters, the bumper sticker on Rami's motorbike, "It will not be over until we talk." The two men are deeply invested in what they are doing. I can't help but wonder what they are thinking with this latest madness in the Middle East. One of the blurbs on the book said it will break your heart. Yes it will indeed. It is a moving and essential book, and I highly recommend it.

4 1/2 stars ( )
  arubabookwoman | Dec 31, 2023 |
„Ein Stein führt zu einer Kugel. Der nächste Selbstmordanschlag führt zum nächsten Luftangriff. Und immer so weiter.“ (Zitat Seite 288)

Inhalt
Abir Aramin, ein Mädchen aus Palästina, ist erst zehn Jahre alt, als sie von einem jungen israelischen Grenzpolizisten erschossen wird. Zehn Jahre davor war die junge israelische Studentin Smadar Elhanan bei einem Anschlag von drei Selbstmordattentätern getötet worden. Bassam Aramin, Abirs Vater, und Rami Elhanan, Smadars Vater, treffen zum ersten Mal in einer Gruppe von trauernden Menschen aufeinander, Israelis und Palästinenser, die nahe Angehörige und Freunde in diesen langen Jahren des Nahost-Konflikts verloren haben. Sie erkennen, dass sie eine gemeinsame, tiefe Trauer eint, und der Wunsch nach Frieden. Das ist der Beginn einer Freundschaft und des gemeinsamen, unermüdlichen Einsatzes für den Frieden.

Thema und Genre
Diese Geschichte ist ein facettenreicher politischer Roman, geschrieben in einer sehr poetischen Erzählsprache. Die Figuren sind fiktiv und stehen dennoch für ungezählte reale Schicksale, wie sie in diesem Konflikt täglich passieren. Es geht um Palästina und die israelische Besatzung. Dieser zeitlos aktuelle Roman ist 2020 erschienen, doch hat er in diesen Wochen eine nochmals neue Brisanz erhalten. Diese Geschichte ist ein Plädoyer dafür, friedlich Seite an Seite zu leben, zu lernen, miteinander auszukommen.

Erzählform und Sprache
Ein Apeirogon ist eine Figur mit einer zählbar unendlichen Menge an Seiten. So wird auch diese Geschichte in zwei Mal fünfhundert kurzen Kapiteln mit vielen unterschiedlichen Themen und Informationen geschildert, der erste Teil in einer Aufwärtsbewegung von eins bis fünfhundert Abschnitten, der zweite Teil als Abwärtsbewegung von fünfhundert bis zurück zu eins. Erzählt wird jedoch nicht nur die Geschichte von Rami und Bassam, sondern diese ist eingebettet in eine weite Fülle von Ideenschnipseln, sei es die politische Lage betreffend, die Geschichte Palästinas, die Menschen, aber auch die Natur, immer wieder taucht das Thema Zugvögel auf, die Schwingen der Freiheit über die von Menschen errichteten Mauern hinweg. Die Sprache ist bilderreich, intensiv, poetisch und beeindruckend.

Fazit
Apeirogon ist ein eindringlicher Roman mit einer zeitlos beklemmenden Aktualität. Kurz gesagt geht es darum, dass es immer zwei Seiten gibt, immer. „Jenseits von Richtig und Falsch liegt ein Ort; dort treffen wir uns.“ Diese auf Seite 312 zitierte Aussage stammt von dem persischsprachigen Dichter und Gelehrten Dschalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī und besser, als mit dieser Aussage, kann der Inhalt dieses epischen Romans nicht zusammengefasst werden. Wer dieses Buch noch nicht gelesen hat, sollte dies tun, jetzt, genau jetzt. ( )
  Circlestonesbooks | Dec 30, 2023 |
Quan la mort d'un fill t'empeny a empatitzar. Això és el que explica, des de molts, molts (potser massa i tot) punts de vista. Israel i Palestina, dues cares de sofriment, actual, passat, etc. És un llibre que m'ha colpit moltíssim.
Molt en traduït, amb un llenguatge preciós. ( )
  Montserratmv | Dec 29, 2023 |
Well written, even if I don't necessarily agree with the premise ( )
  wahoo8895 | Nov 20, 2022 |
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In the context of the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East and Ireland’s condemnation of Israel’s de-facto annexation policy, Apeirogon by Colum McCann is worth reading more than ever.
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My name is Bassam Aramin. I am the father of Abir. Everything else rose out of that.
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"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly crowds, and again when thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn one another's stories and the loss that connects them, they become part of a much larger tale that ranges over centuries and continents. Apeirogon is a novel that balances on the knife edge of fiction and nonfiction. Bassam and Rami are real men and their actual words are a part of this narrative, one that builds through thousands of moments and images into one grand, unforgettable crescendo"--

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