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Granta 11
Greetings From PragueWhat 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, a sceptic and irrepressible story-teller, an erotic hedonist whose life is politicized in the extreme, Kundera is as surprising and as unpredictable as the contemporary world he addresses. The current issue of Granta publishes, for the first time in Britain, a collection of Kundera's newest work, representing the range and power of an author whom more and more people have come to recognize as one of the most important writers to have emerged in the last ten years.
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Granta 6
A Literature For Politics€ 23,50 -
Granta 5
Modern Common WindFor 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. From The Modern Common Wind. The issue is the habitability of the earth, and it is in this context, not in the context of the direct slaughter of millions of people by the local effects of nuclear weapons, that the question of human survival arises. from The Fate of the Earth. At an age where most young Scotsmen were lifting skirts, plowing furrows, and spreading seed, Mungo Park was displaying his bare buttocks to al-haff Ali Ibn Fatoudi, Emir of Ludamar. From Mungo Among the Moors. Because Hanley's skin has been stripped off by the enemy, he could find no one who was willing to be with him for long. from Anatomy of Desire. Tottenham Court Road! Street of sin, street of shame! I go there by underground, rumbling beneath the surface, howling through black tunnels. I emerge into the light of those windows of desire gleaming in the winter dusk. There is so much I need. so much I want, and all of it is here in my street of love and lust. From Mnemosyne, Teen Taals, and Tottenham Court Road.
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Granta 3
The End Of The English NovelIs it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is also the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning - quite possibly an extremely important beginning - of British fiction.
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Granta 4
Beyond The Crisis€ 23,50 -
Granta 18
The Snap RevolutionJames 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 - resting alongside the grand piano, on which James Fenton managed to play a version of Bach's Prelude in C (abruptly abbreviated), while the population of Manila rioted. But James Fenton's version of the Philippines is more than a record of being at the right place at the worst of possible times. It is also an account of one of the most historic uprisings in recent years - in which an entire people, cheated of its vote in a snap election, responded in turn: with a snap revolution.
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Granta 16
ScienceFor 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' are themselves inventions of the most spectacular kind? Granta 16, 'Science' is devoted to representing part of this revival. In 'Excesses', Oliver Sacks describes individuals suffering from not only too much personality but too many. In 'Amazon', Eugene Richards and Dorothea Lynch document the terrible mystery of illness and the body. The sexuality of tortoises, the lunacy of invention, the bizarre mating habits of a tropical rodent, the zoo-like existence of the young scientists of Reagan's Star Wars - all invite us to understand 'science' not simply as the study of fact but also as another way, not unlike the novel, of describing the mystery of the world.
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Granta 17
While Waiting For A War€ 13,95 -
Granta 14
Autobiography€ 23,50 -
Granta 15
The Fall Of SaigonTen 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 remained for, and even participated in, the looting of the US Embassy. And when the first North Vietnamese tank entered the city, lost, unable to make its way through Saigon's maze of streets, James Fenton jumped on the back, an unlikely navigator, directing the tank commander to the Presidential Palace. And still Fenton remained, until three months later, without food or money or clothes, wandering around a city transformed, he finally made his way back home. Witty, bizarre, and verging on the lunatic - who in his right mind would hop on the back of an invading army's tank? - James Fenton's account of the fall of Saigon is an extraordinary and historically important record of the collapse of a city at war.
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Granta 13
After The Revolution€ 23,50 -
Granta 12
The Rolling Stones€ 13,95