Apeirogon - March 2020 Book of the Month - Gold EditionFrom the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award winning, Booker Prize longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic comes the novel of a lifetime: about two men and their daughters, divided by conflict yet united in grief 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

the wise and forbearing student of crime and of the folk ways of Yoknapatawpha County

was no accident

and 1960 brings the presidential battle between two ambitious senators: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon

years later

part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant

Sonny is full of curiosity

Ned trades in the car for a racehorse

with best wishes and many thanks' by Felix Francis Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he's badly wounded by an IED - Improvised Explosive Device

- How're you doing

As a therapist

it is 1917 and Daniel's great grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele

As Ellis navigates his collapsing