This pair of tragedies provides the nucleus of McCann’s “Apeirogon.” An apeirogon is a polygon with an infinite yet countable number of sides. Her title, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won both the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. A decade later, 10-year-old Abir Aramin, donned in her school uniform and holding a candy bracelet she had just bought, was shot in the back of the head by an 18-year-old Israeli soldier. She is the author of The Invisible Circus, Look at Me, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and Manhattan Beach, which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction in 2018.
In 1997, 13-year-old Smadar Elhanan,wearing a Blondie T-shirt and listening to Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” on her Walkman, was walking down a Jerusalem street when three young Palestinian men detonated suicide belts, killing themselves, Smadar and four others. His work has been published in 40 languages. The event features authors Jennifer Egan (“A Visit from the Goon Squad”), Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), John Irving (“The Cider House Rules”), Diana Gabaldon (“Outlander”), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (“Chain Gang All-Stars”), Denise Chávez (“The King and Queen of Comezón”), Ingrid Rojas Contreras (“The Man Who Could Move Clouds”) and more.īorn and raised in Dublin, McCann is the author of seven novels, including “Let the Great World Spin,” “TransAtlantic,” “Zoli” and “Dancer,” as well as three story collections and two works of nonfiction. Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction, the Irish American author is the opening speaker for the three-day Santa Fe International Literary Festival beginning Friday, May 19. Colum McCann cracks open the rib cage of Palestinian-Israeli violence in his excruciating novel “Apeirogon.”
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