Colum McCann\u2019s profoundly moving masterpiece, Apeirogon, is based on a true story of a friendship between \u201cAn Israeli, against the Occupation. A Palestinian, studying the Holocaust.\u201d United by the devastation of losing a daughter to political violence, Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan together tell their daughters\u2019 stories over and over, to anyone that will listen, in an attempt to bring a peaceful resolution to the endless conflict. Colum\u2019s radically empathetic novel is infused with both desperate hope and poetic power.
\nChaired by Sophie Cunningham