Новинки Колум Маккэнн

Бассам Арамин — палестинец. Рами Элханан — израильтянин. Они живут в мире без Мира, где бал правит взаимная ненависть. Повсюду стоят контрольно-пропускные пункты. Их дети ходят в разные школы. Под их ногами — разные дороги: своя для палестинцев, своя для израильтян. Но после личных трагедий их жизненные пути неизбежно пересекаются… У судьбы свои планы. В разное…

National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley’s voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley – in search of answers, beyond justice, found through dogged, empathetic, spiritual enquiry.

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.

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.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
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,&nbs

In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland.
In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet.
And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace.
Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.

Ирландская литература славна именами, и Колум Маккэнн со своим эпохальным романом «И пусть вращается мир» уверенно занял не последнее место в очень представительном ряду ирландских писателей. Маккэнн — достойный продолжатель традиций большой ирландской литературы. 1970-е, Нью-Йорк, время стремительных перемен, все движется, летит, несется. Но на миг сумбур и хаос мегаполиса замирает: меж башнями Всемирного Торгового Центра по натянутому канату идет человек. Этот невероятный трюк французского канатоходца становится центром, в которой сбегают истории героев: уличного священника, проституток, матерей, потерявших сыновей во Вьетнаме, богемных, судью. Маккэнн использует прошлое, чтобы понять настоящее. Истории из эпохи, когда формировался мир, в котором мы сейчас живем, позволяют осмыслить сегодняшние дни, не менее бурные, чем уже далекие 1970-е годы. Роман Колума Маккэна получил Национальную книжную премию, а газета «Нью-Йорк таймс» назвала книгу «одной из самых сильных и глубоких за последние годы». А в 2011 году роман получил Дублинскую Премию, вторую по значимости литературную премию после Нобелевской.

Перед читателем – калейдоскоп жизней, который вертится вокруг события, вошедшего в историю и прославившего французского канатоходца. 9 августа 1974 года Филлипп Пети, пройдя по канату между двумя башнями Всемирного торгового центра Нью-Йорка, воплотил свою мечту. Для героев Колума Маккэнна этот день тоже стал особенным: кто-то нашёл любовь и призвание, а кто-то потерял близких; кто-то обрёл друга на всю жизнь, а кто-то стал свидетелем захватывающего зрелища. Для кого-то этот день стал последним. Сначала не понимаешь, как все эти люди связаны между собой, но вот круг замыкается, и ты ощущаешь одновременно и всю тщетность бытия, и ценность человеческой жизни. Любой. Потому что мы и есть мир. Здесь читателя ждут яркие и запоминающиеся персонажи, замечательный язык, печально светлое послевкусие. Эта книга просто о жизни. И какой бы она не была, она прекрасна. З.Ы. Кстати, есть восхитительных фильм 2015 года о безумной прогулке Филиппа Пети. Основан на его книге "To reach the clouds" .

Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their 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.

But their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers; a decade later, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. And yet, when they learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. 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.

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 non-profit organization Narrative 4. McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world, by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another, perhaps others could too.

With their blessing, and unprecedented access to their families, lives, and personal recollections, McCann began to craft Apeirogon, which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers’ moving story at its heart.

Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon--named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides--is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging.

Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. 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 daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints both physical and emotional that they must negotiate.

Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn of one another's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

McCann crafts Apeirogon out of a universe of fictional and non-fictional material. He crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature, and politics together in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our times.

Colum McCann's most ambitious work to date, Apeirogon--named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides--is a tour de force concerning friendship, love, loss, and belonging.

Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. 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 daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend, to the checkpoints both physical and emotional that they must negotiate.

Their worlds shift irreparably after ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet and thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn of one another's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them and they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace.

McCann crafts Apeirogon out of a universe of fictional and non-fictional material. He crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature, and politics together in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. Musical, cinematic, muscular, delicate, and soaring, Apeirogon is a novel for our times.