Colum McCann

Un conflicto perpetuo. Dos familias de bandos enfrentados. Un mismo dolor.Rami Elhanan y Bassam Aramin viven cerca el uno del otro, pero existen en mundos separados. Rami es israelí. Bassam es palestino. La matricula de Rami es amarilla. La de Bassam es verde. Rami tarda quince minutos en llegar a Cisjordania. El mismo viaje para Bassam dura una hora y media.Ambos hombres han perdido a sus hijas. La de Rami murio a manos de un terrorista suicida, la de Bassam fue asesinada a tiros por un miembro de la policia fronteriza frente a su escuela. Protagonistas de un desafio tan desgarrador como esperanzador, los dos hombres se convertiran en grandes amigos y el dolor compartido conseguira que abran una poderosa via al entendimiento de los otros.Esta conmovedora novela lleva el nombre de un poligono que tiene un numero infinito de caras: este es el enfoque que adopta McCann para abordar una realidad tragica que necesariamente debe reflejarse desde distintos angulos, que nunca podra reducirse a un unico relato.

Un libro imprescindible para todos los que aspiran a convertirse en escritor. Una clase magistral para aplicar en el arte y en la vida.De la mano de Colum McCann, ganador del National Book Award y profesor de escritura creativa en Nueva York, llega el perfecto regalo para los amantes de los libros. De una forma fascinante y motivacional, este libro es una llamada a mirar el mundo con ojos de escritor. Una oda al poder del lenguaje, un testimonio tan feroz como honesto de las marcas que deja la escritura como profesion, una invitacion a los aspirantes a escritores a aprender las reglas pero tambien a romperlas. Estos 50 ensayos son, en ultima instancia, un desafio y un estimulo para que una nueva generacion de escritores encuentre algo de verdad y de luz en eloscuro mundo del arte.

Rentrée littéraire 2020Apeirogon, n.m. : figure géométrique au nombre infini de côtés.Rami Elhanan est israélien, fils d'un rescapé de la Shoah, ancien soldat de la guerre du Kippour ; Bassam Aramin

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.

Colum McCann revient avec une œuvre atypique au cœur d’une tragédie infinie : le conflit israélo-palestinien.

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Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half.Both men have lost their daughters. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot and killed by a member of the border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet.The men become the best of friends.In this epic novel - named for a shape with a countably infinite number of sides - Colum McCann crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging. Musical, muscular, delicate and soaring, Apeirogon is the novel for our times.'A quite extraordinary novel. 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

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.

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.

Ambientada en el subsuelo de Manhattan, la segunda novela de Colum McCann es una esplendente mezcla de historia e imaginación. Historia, porque en 1916 una explosión en las entrañas de la ciudad dejó sin vida a unos cuantos operarios que trabajaban en la construccion de un tunel subterraneo entre Brooklyn y Manhattan. Imaginacion, porque a partir de este hecho historico, McCann desgrana las historias imaginarias de varias generaciones de parias y amores fatidicos, de crimenes accidentales y tabues sociales, de la inventiva que para sobrevivir debe llegar a alimentarse de ratas y bañarse en la nieve derretida de una ciudad cuya superficie opulenta se ha construido a partir del sufrimiento de muchos.

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

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.

Comment rester debout face à la violence, à l'horreur ? Comment regarder dans les yeux celui qui vous a enlevé ce que vous aviez de plus précieux ? Comment pardonner à l'assassin d'un des siens ? Com

New York, 1974. The magnificent twin towers are unveiled to the world, and the consensus is that they are ugly compared to the splendid sky-scrapers that grace the New York skyline (the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Centre etc). But, a marvelous feat from an athlete, Philippe Petit, almost changes the perception. Petit walked across a tightrope between the towers - he danced, he entertained, he wowed, and he enjoyed himself thoroughly, as the New Yorkers below looked up in awe, wondering if the man dancing with the clouds was suicidal, crazy, or if he had some perfectly legitimate reason to be doing what he was. After all, it's not often, you see someone dancing with the clouds.

La vida de la gitana Zoli Novotna —una historia de amor, un relato de pérdida y una parábola acerca de Europa—, comienza en las arboladas carreteras secundarias de Eslovaquia, cuando ella y su abuelo

En 1944, dans un hôpital soviétique, Rudik, six ans, danse pour son premier public : aucun des soldats mutilés n'oubliera cet instant éblouissant.Dès lors, ce fils de paysan sait. Il sait qu'il ne re

The acclaimed author of "Dancer" and "This Side of Brightness" delivers a sensuous novel about exile, belonging, and survival, based loosely on the true story of the Romani poet Papsuza. It spans the 20th century and travels the breadth of Europe.

Al amanecer de una mañana de finales de verano, los habitantes de la parte baja de Manhattan miraban absortos hacia lo alto de las Torres Gemelas. Estamos en agosto de 1974 y una minúscula y enigmática figura camina en inverosimil equilibrio sobre un cable entre ambos edificios.Y abajo, en la bulliciosa y violenta Nueva York de la decada de los setenta, los destinos de varios personajes se cruzaran y sus vidas aparentemente ordinarias cambiaran para siempre: un sacerdote irlandes que lucha contra sus demonios y vive entre prostitutas en pleno Bronx , un grupo de madres que se reunen para llorar a sus hijos muertos en Vietnam, una artista que sera testigo de un accidente que la marcara para siempre, una joven abuela que ayuda a su hija adolescente mientras trata de demostrarse a si misma que su vida tiene sentidoObra ganadora del National Book Award Una de las mas electrizantes y profundas novelas en años. Un tour de force emocional. Un libro sobrecogedor. The New York Times Ningun novelista que ha escrito sobre Nueva York ha llegado a tal altura, a tal profundidad. Frank McCourt