![]() ![]() This extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the nonprofit organization Narrative 4. ![]() Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace - and with their one small act start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict. And yet, when they learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on, to the schools their children attend, to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate.īut their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: First, Rami’s 13-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers a decade later, Bassam’s 10-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Independent įrom the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers.īassam Aramin is Palestinian. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.” (Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire ) ![]()
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