Colum McCann writes literary fiction about migration, memory and people whose separate lives intersect through one place or historical moment. Let the Great World Spin moves among New Yorkers in 1974 while Philippe Petit's wire walk between the Twin Towers provides a distant point of connection. TransAtlantic links Frederick Douglass, aviators Alcock and Brown, and the Northern Ireland peace process through generations of fictional and historical characters. Apeirogon centres on two fathers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, whose daughters were killed in the conflict and who become public advocates together. McCann's prose is lyrical, multi-strand and structurally ambitious, fitting contemporary literary fiction, migration literature and history-inflected novels. Let the Great World Spin is the most accessible introduction to McCann's intersecting-character structure, while Apeirogon is more formally fragmented and explicitly connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lives of two real fathers. Read more Less
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