Colum McCann

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.

Eighty pieces of short fiction and nonfiction on manhood by some of the world's best writers. To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4, Esquire asked eighty of the world's greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title, "How to Be a Man." The result is The Book of Men, an unflinching investigation into the essence of manhood.

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.

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

Un pequeño paso para un hombre... Celebrando el mayor triunfo de la exploración espacial Para conmemorar el 40 aniversario del histórico alunizaje del Apolo 11, TASCHEN ha emparejado este texto capital de Norman Mailer con espectaculares fotografias, documentacion y apuntes de los archivos de la NASA, para crear un homenaje unico a la mision cientifica que ha definido nuestra era. Ha sido llamado el acontecimiento historico puntual mas importante del siglo XX: el 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin y Michael Collins cumplieron con el llamamiento de John F. Kennedy de un alunizaje tripulado para fines de los años 1960. Una decada de pruebas y entrenamiento, un equipo de 400.000 ingenieros y cientificos, un presupuesto de 24.000 millones de dolares y el cohete mas potente jamas lanzado, todo combinado en un evento sin precedentes contemplado por millones de personas alrededor del mundo. Y nadie capto los hombres, los animos y la maquinaria como Norman Mailer. Uno de los mayores escritores del siglo XX, Norman Mailer fue contratado por la revista LIFE en 1969 para cubrir el lanzamiento lunar. Su articulo en tres partes era la pieza mas larga de no ficcion que nunca hubiera publicado la revista. Luego el autor amplio y optimizo su reportaje al profundizar sus reflexiones en el libro Un fuego en la luna, brillantemente redactado y extractado aqui por primera vez. Inclinado por igual a examinar la ciencia del viaje espacial y la psicologia de los hombres involucrados en ella -desde el ingeniero del cohete Saturno V Wernher von Braun al vital equipo de apoyo de la NASA y los tres astronautas-, Mailer brinda interioridades provocadoras y mordaces de este hito que ha hecho epoca. Edicion limitada y numerada de 1957 ejemplares. Cada ejemplar incluye una fotografia enmarcada en polimetilmetacrilato, numerada, lista para colgar y con calidad de archivo, reproducida utilizando la revolucionaria tecnica de impresion Skia y firmada por Buzz Aldrin.

An extraordinary story of grace forgiveness and moral courage Patrick Radden KeefeA 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMESAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe 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 It 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 In American Mother legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane s story 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 A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage American Mother takes us inside one woman s extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder and to fight for others as a way to keep her son s memory alive

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction from the New York Timesbestselling, National Book Awardwinning, Booker Prizelonglisted author of Let the Great World Spin**The instant Irish Times top 5 bestseller****Named a 2025 book to look out for by the Observer, Financial Times, Irish Times and New European**'Urgent and utterly compelling' KEVIN BARRY'Twist lingers long after you've put it down' GUARDIAN'A Gatsby tale for the internet age' ANNA FUNDER'One of our greatest storytellers' ELIF SHAFAK'Masterful ... A surprising, electric book' IRISH TIMES'A powerfully realist novel of men at sea . It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world' SALMAN RUSHDIE

An extraordinary story of grace forgiveness and moral courage Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The 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 It 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 In American Mother legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane s story 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 A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage American Mother takes us inside one woman s extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder and to fight for others as a way to keep her son s memory alive

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.

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.

n the National Book Awardwinning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called an emotional tour de force. Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined.Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviatorsJack Alcock and Arthur Brownset course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War.Dublin, 1845 and 46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist causedespite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave.New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Irelands notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses paths with Frederick Douglass, the novel follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and failures of previous generations live on. From the loughs of Ireland to the flatlands of Missouri and the windswept coast of Newfoundland, their journeys mirror the progress and shape of history. They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of grace have a way of rippling through time, space, and memory.The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 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. On his travels he inspires a young maid to go to New York to embrace a free world, but the land does not always fulfill its promises for her. From the violent battlefields of the Civil War to the ice lakes of northern Missouri, it is her youngest daughter Emily who eventually finds her way back to Ireland. Nominated for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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