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Granta 19
More Dirt
Häftad, 2008
228 kr
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Over the course of the last five years, more and more people have realized that the dominant voice in American fiction is altogether different from what it was. Three years ago, Granta devoted an issue to this new voice, entitled 'Dirty Realism', and published in it the work of eight authors, whose …
Granta 48
Africa
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
259 kr
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What is happening on the continent of Africa? What are its images? This book addresses these questions in a range of essays that span the continent. The contributors include William Boyd, Paul Theroux, Sousa Jamba, Nelson Mandela, Ahdaf Soueif, Mark Doyle and Gilles Peress.
Granta 99
What Happened Next
Av Fatema Ahmed
Häftad, 2007
228 kr
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This title contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto …
Granta 151
Membranes
Av Rana Dasgupta, Rana Dasgupta
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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Granta 's spring issue, guest-edited by award-winning writer Rana Dasgupta, explores membranes of the tissue, self, collective, nation, species and cosmos. It features new poetry by Andrew McMillan, Tishani Doshi and Ida Börjel, a new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie …
Granta 8
Dirty Realism
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing detachment, at times verging on comedy. Understated, …
Granta 21
The Storyteller
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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What does 'story-teller' suggest? Folk-tales, myths, sea voyages, a cartoon campfire: in short, a way of writing that is distinctly unmodern. Granta 21 presents the work of three authors who are, in their way, distinctly and deliberately unmodern.Bruce Chatwin follows nomads through the Sahara and …
Granta 5
Modern Common Wind
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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For long hours Shebani sat up there with open eyes listening to the weeping. It was more whimpering, really, someone weeping from fear of too much silence. During those hours there, paralysed, not moving in his blanket, Shebani grew old. Ever after, we say, he carried Makokha's weeping in his body. …
Granta 33
What Went Wrong?
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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This edition of Granta includes stories by Victoria Tokareva, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Christa Wolf, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis and Romsesh Gunesekera.
Granta 97
The Best Of Young American Novelists 2
Häftad, 2007
338 kr
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A little over a decade ago Granta devoted an issue to new fiction by twenty writers it judged to be the 'Best of Young American Novelists'. The writers then included Sherman Alexie, Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore.Who are their equivalents as writers of …
Granta 9
John Berger, Boris
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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Boris is a novella that works on several levels: a love-story, a tragedy, a depiction of pain and self-destruction. It is a moving and strangely understated chronicle of an obsession, but it is an obsession with political and historical implications that extend far beyond its seemingly …
Granta 10
Travel Writing
Häftad, 2008
375 kr
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Travel writing is undergoing a revival: not since the 1920s and '30s has it been so popular or so important. What accounts for its sudden appeal? A need for escape? Nostalgia for an experience that means not tourism but adventure? Or does travel writing - being part reportage, part fiction, and …
Granta 11
Greetings From Prague
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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What is Milan Kundera's writing about? Sexual conquest and Russian tanks, arousal and totalitarian repression, infidelity and political betrayal, desire and the quiet tragedy of Europe. Kundera is a literary acrobat, a master of paradox and parody. An exile from communism and a critic of the West, …
Granta 15
The Fall Of Saigon
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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Ten years ago, James Fenton went to Saigon, having made up his mind that, no matter what happened, he was not going to miss what he had travelled 10,000 miles to see: a Communist victory. And so he remained, long after the US troops and most members of the western press had been evacuated. He …
Granta 16
Science
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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For the last thirty or forty years, it has been a commonplace that science and literature don't mix. But recently science writing has undergone a revival and has come to constitute a literature in itself. What accounts for its sudden appeal? That attraction of facts? Or the possibility that 'facts' …
Granta 18
The Snap Revolution
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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James Fenton is a rather peculiar individual.He was, after all, among the first to loot the US Embassy as the city of Saigon fell. This year, he found himself in the Presidential Palace in Manila, and his booty included one towel (with the monogram of Imelda Marcos) and a letter to President Macros …
Granta 22
With Your Tongue Down My Throat
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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What is Nadia - living over there in Pakistan - really like? A girl of bangles and perfume and lots of money, forever sitting under a palm tree, drinking yogurt?And what is Nina - living over there in London - really like? A wild animal, a brute hardened by drugs and thieving and massage …
Granta 23
Home
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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Prague, Beirut, Des Moines, the ugliest village in Essex. What is home for an Arab in Israel? For an ex-patriot returning for the Iowa Country Fair? For a man surrounded by chickens?Plus:Nicholas Shakespeare, in the Andes of Peru.T. Coraghessan Boyle, witnessing miracles in Ireland.Ian Hamilton, in …
Granta 26
Travel
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
329 kr
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Five years ago, Granta published 'Travel Writing'.Five years ago there was a travel writing revival, and the revival continues today. There are hundreds of magazines of travel writing; there are television and radio programmes; there are publishers devoted exclusively to it - and Granta's first …
Granta 27
Death
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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This edition of Granta has articles by Martha Gellhorn, Eleanor Roosevelt, Oliver Sacks, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Chandler and Patrick Leigh Fermor. There are examples of letters to Chinese dissidents, letters to pop stars, hate letters, publishers' rejection letters to Elliot, Philip …
Granta 28
Birthday Special!
Av Bill Buford
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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Granta is ten years old. And its 'Birthday Special' is a celebration, a merry miscellany, a mad editorial tea party of some of the writers who, since 1979, have made Granta the most widely read literary magazine in the English language.
Granta 29
New World
Häftad, 2008
228 kr
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What does it mean to leave your country?Is it possible, by travelling to a New World, to become a new person?A year ago, Jonathan Raban crossed the Atlantic by ship and, like the immigrants before him, made for America.The first of four installments, 'New World' is the story of his journey, a …
