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Apeirogon: Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize 25 Feb, 2020

by Colum McCann

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS
WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM

'A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout
'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review
'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie

How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live?

Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem – but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict. And yet they have one thing in common. Both are fathers; both are fathers of daughters – and both daughters are now lost.

When Rami and Bassam meet, and tell one another the story of their grief, the most unexpected thing of all happens: they become best of friends. And their stories become one story, a story with the power to heal – and the power to change the world.

'The book goes anywhere and everywhere. It is a delirious and thrilling improvisation, a jazz solo spun out of that meeting … A spectacular structure of stories about everything' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

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Letters to a Young Writer 4 May, 2017

by Colum McCann

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I hope there is something here for any young writer – or any older writer, for that matter – who happens to be looking for a teacher to come along, a teacher who, in the end, can really teach nothing at all but fire.

From the critically acclaimed Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin, comes a paean to the power of language, and a direct address to the artistic, professional and philosophical concerns that challenge and sometimes torment an author.

Comprising fifty-two short prose pieces, Letters to a Young Writer ranges from practical matters of authorship, such as finding an agent, the pros and cons of creative writing degrees and handling bad reviews, through to the more joyous and celebratory, as McCann elucidates the pleasures to be found in truthful writing, for: 'the best writing makes us glad that we are – however briefly – alive.'

Emphatic and empathetic, pragmatic and profound, this is an essential companion to any author's journey – and a deeply personal work from one of our greatest literary voices.

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Zoli 3 Sep, 2020

by Colum McCann

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The life of Zoli Novotna begins on the leafy backroads of Slovakia, when she and her grandfather come upon a quiet lake where their family has been drowned by Fascist guards. Zoli and her grandfather flee to join up with another clan of travelling harpists. So begins an epic tale of song, intimacy and betrayal.

Based loosely on the true story of the Gypsy poet Papusza, and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Zoli is a love story, a tale of loss, and a parable of modern-day Europe.

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Let the Great World Spin 7 Sep, 2009

by Colum McCann

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New York, August 1974. A man is walking the sky. The city stands still in awe. Between the newly built Twin Towers the man is striding, twirling and showboating his way through the air. One hundred and ten stories below him, the lives of eight strangers spin towards each other...

Corrigan, a radical, passionate Irish monk working in the Bronx with a clutch of prostitutes; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son in Vietnam; her husband Solomon, a cynical judge turning over petty criminals in a downtown court; Lara, a young artist struggling with a spiralling drug addiction and a doomed marriage; Fernando, a thirteen-year-old photographer chasing underground graffiti; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a courageous hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful, reckless daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the high rises of New York.

Set against a time of sweeping political and social change, from the backlash to the Vietnam War and the lingering sceptre of the oil crisis to the beginnings of the Internet - a time that hauntingly mirrors the present time - these disparate lives will collide in the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, and be transformed for ever.

Weaving together themes of love, loss, belonging, duty and human striving, Let the Great World Spin celebrates the effervescent spirit of an age and the small beauties of everyday life. At once intimate and magnificent, elegant and astonishing, it is a lyrical masterpiece from a storyteller who continues to use the wide world as his canvas.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking 8 Oct, 2015

by Colum McCann

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A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award

As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.

It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mid-meal, Mendelssohn continues eating alone as the snow falls heavily outside.

Moments after he leaves the restaurant he is brutally attacked. The detectives working on the case search through the footage of Mendelssohn's movements, captured by cameras in his home and on the street. Their work is like that of a poet: the search for a random word that, included at the right instance, will suddenly make sense of everything.

Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking novella of true resonance. Accompanied by three equally powerful stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London, this is a tribute to humanity's search for meaning and grace, from a writer at the height of his form, capable of imagining immensities even in the smallest corners of our lives.

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Everything in this Country Must 7 Jan, 2021

by Colum McCann

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One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in This Country Must. Although these are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, four young soldiers help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in flood, unable to understand that their help will never be anything but an insult. In the novella, Hunger Strike, a young boy and his mother flee to Galway as the boy's uncle succumbs to a hunger strike in a Derry gaol. In Wood, a ten-year-old boy is asked by his mother to make poles for the marching season.

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Fishing the Sloe-Black River 7 Jan, 2021

by Colum McCann

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An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are eloquent tales of exile and displacement, of characters always in search of a way back home or of a way to leave it. Mischievous, assured and versatile, Colum McCann's collection of short stories marks him out as one of our best contemporary writers.

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Songdogs 7 Jan, 2021

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Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.

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Dancer 3 Sep, 2020

by Colum McCann

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This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around them, their own hunger rendering them almost savage, the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa, desperate for food and shelter. They find both, and then music and dance. And there, spinning unafraid among them, dancing for the soldiers and anyone else who'll watch him, is one small pale boy, Rudolf. This is Colum McCann's dancer: Rudolf, a prodigy at six years old, who became the greatest dancer of the century, who redefined dance, rewrote his own life, and died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it.

This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum McCann's beautiful and daring new novel.

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Apeirogon (German Edition) 21 Jul, 2020

by Colum McCann , Volker Oldenburg

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Rami Elhanan und Bassam Aramin sind zwei Männer. Rami braucht fünfzehn Minuten für die Fahrt auf die West Bank. Bassam braucht für dieselbe Strecke anderthalb Stunden. Ramis Nummernschild ist gelb, Bassams grün.
Beide Männer sind Väter von Töchtern. Beide Töchter waren Zeichen erfüllter Liebe, bevor sie starben. Ramis Tochter wurde 1997 im Alter von dreizehn Jahren von einem palästinensischen Selbstmordbomber vor einem Jerusalemer Buchladen getötet. Bassams Tochter starb 2007 zehnjährig mit einer Zuckerkette in der Tasche vor ihrer Schule durch die Kugel eines israelischen Grenzpolizisten.
Ramis und Bassams Leben ist vollkommen symmetrisch. Ramis und Bassams Leben ist vollkommen asymmetrisch. Rami und Bassam sind Freunde.
Apeirogon: eine zweidimensionale geometrische Form mit einer gegen unendlich gehenden Zahl von Seiten.
Während "Apeirogon" nach und nach seine nahezu unendlichen Seiten auffächert und die beiden Männer in seiner Mitte rahmt, entfaltet sich der Palästinakonflikt in seiner ganzen Historie und Komplexität. Dies ist Colum McCanns überwältigendes Meisterwerk - ein Roman, der das Unbeschreibliche sinnlich und sinnhaft erfahrbar, greifbar macht. Ein kaleidoskopischer Text stellt die zeitlose Frage: Wie leben wir weiter, wenn das Liebste verloren ist? Und: Wie kann der Mensch Frieden finden? Mit sich selbst, mit anderen.

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Frieden: Eine Erzählung (German Edition) 8 Jul, 2016

by Colum McCann , Dirk van Gunsteren

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Schwester Beverly ist vor Bürgerkrieg und Gewalt aus Kolumbien in die USA geflohen, nachdem sie von der Guerilla entführt und gefoltert wurde. Jahre später plagen sie die Schrecknisse dieser Zeit noch immer in Albträumen, lassen sie an ihrem Glauben zweifeln und behindern sie bei ihrer Arbeit in einem Kinderheim in Houston.
Eines Abends schaut sie die spanischsprachigen Spätnachrichten, es läuft ein Bericht über Friedensverhandlungen zwischen den kolumbianischen Bürgerkriegsparteien, die soeben in London begonnen wurden. Und aus dem Augenwinkel erkennt sie dort – Carlos, jenen brutalen, sadistischen Guerillero, der sie damals gefoltert und vergewaltigt hat, jetzt elegant und glatt im blauen Serge-Anzug als Mitglied einer Delegation.
Schockiert und wie gelähmt verharrt Beverly ein paar Tage, dann kauft sie sich ein Flugticket nach London …
Colum McCanns dramatische Erzählung ist ein Plädoyer für das Verzeihen, den Frieden, aber sie zeigt, wie schwer beide zu erlangen sind.

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Der Tänzer (German Edition) 1 Aug, 2014

by Colum McCann , Dirk van Gunsteren

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Rudolf Nurejew galt als einer der größten Tänzer aller Zeiten. McCann begibt sich in seinem Roman auf die Spuren eines Künstlerlebens, das rätselhaft bleibt. Aus der Sicht der Wegbegleiter des Genies erzählt, entsteht ein schillerndes Kaleidoskop, das von Ost und West, Partyleben und Künstlereinsamkeit, Genialität, Trieb und Tod erzählt. Ein Leben wie ein Roman – ein wilder Tanz.

"Das Buch ist so schwerelos wie ein Grand jeté seines Helden." (Der Spiegel)

"McCann ist ein Geschichtenerzähler, wie wir wirklich nur wenige haben." (Elke Heidenreich)

"Der sowjetische Tänzer Nurejew (1938–1993) setzt sich gleich bei seiner ersten Tournee 1961 in Paris von seiner Truppe ab und bleibt im Westen. Von nun an ist der Tatare ein internationaler Superstar. Rasant erzählt der irische Schriftsteller Colum McCann von den glorreichen und tragischen Lebensstationen im wüsten Leben eines Jahrhundertgenies. Im doppelten Sinn des Wortes wird die Lektüre zu einem schwindelerregenden Erlebnis." (Focus)

"Man muss rein gar nichts von Ballett verstehen, um den fast überirdischen Zauber auch beim Lesen zu spüren. Was daran liegt, dass der Autor ebenfalls ein Genie ist." (Brigitte)

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