![]() ![]() McCann takes us on a journey that ranges through time, place, the difficulties of history, the implacability of religion, the intransigence of ideology, of politics, details of armaments, the flight patterns of migratory birds. The two men reach across this seemingly impossible divide and cement their brotherhood in an organisation started by Abir: Combatants for Peace. McCann has ‘novelised’ actual events endured by these men, their families and their communities. Abir, Palestinian Bassam’s 10-year-old dies when a border policeman’s rubber bullet smashes the back of her skull. ![]() Israeli Rami’s 13-year-old Smadar was shopping in a candy store when a suicide bomber went about his evil work. Two men, one from each side of the fence, lose a daughter to this relentless conflict that defies solution. This is the metaphor that McCann straps to the Middle Eastern mire-tangle of the Israel/Palestine ‘situation’. A shape with an infinitely countable number of sides, that’s an apeirogon. ![]()
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