Writing at the top of his game, McCann brings us a book that we sorely need. The affect is absolutely staggering, it will bring you to your knees. In an accretion of splendid detail, McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity as he describes the age old story of inhumanity to man. Think about feeling that the very idea of the novel, of what it can be and what it’s capable of containing, has been expanded, forever.” -Michael Cunningham, New York Times bestselling author of The Snow Queen Colum McCann’s Apeirogonis nothing like any book you’ve ever read. Think of reading David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, or George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo for the first time. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. “Every significant novel is an act of reckless originality.
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