{"title":"Colum McCann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"apeirogon-matching-numbered-set","title":"Apeirogon - Matching Numbered Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of \u003cem\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTransatlantic\u003c\/em\u003e comes the novel of a lifetime: about two men and their daughters, divided by conflict yet united in grief\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/product-description\/1526607905\/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;n=266239\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;isInIframe=0\" class=\"a-link-normal\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRami 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth 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 ofthe border police outside her school. There was a candy bracelet in her pocket she hadn't had time to eat yet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe men become the best of friends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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, it is a book for our times from a writer at the height of his powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263848726822,"sku":"apeirogon-matching-set","price":130.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/c19569e6-8d49-4e7e-ab8f-5abf8e25a28f.jpg?v=1701087241"},{"product_id":"american-mother","title":"American Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOBSERVER, GUARDIAN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAND \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIRISH TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Mother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, legendary author \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eColum McCann tells Diane's story\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son's kidnapping and torture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Mother \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etakes us inside one woman's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eextraordinary journey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son's memory alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47509514649894,"sku":"978-1526663481","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/c9d0bb55-4a93-4bce-8ca3-6628c10e1efa.jpg?v=1705512798"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/colum-mccann.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}