A writer needs to render as many aspects of the situation as he or she can. There are so many one-dimensional distortions of both the Palestinians and the Israelis. Or certainly I – as a taxpayer in the United States – am complicit. In relation to Israel and Palestine, we are, yes, complicit in what is happening there. By the act of telling, they make us complicit in the stories of the loss of their daughters. My novel concerns two men – one Israeli, one Palestinian – who become friends despite the evidence and the odds. I suppose I mean this in two very different senses – complicity in the darkness and then the complicity in the availability of light. Were you aware of that inescapable complicity when you were writing this book?Ĭ: Complicity is at the heart of all story-telling, yes. We are collectively responsible for the moment when a bomb exploded and killed one daughter, when a gun was drawn and emptied into another.
R: Apeirogon is a novel where you make the whole world complicit in the events of one story.
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