ISBN: 9781909889224

Description: 448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

• 40th birthday special
• Fortieth birthday special

Notes:

• Cover title.
• "The magazine of new writing" --Cover.
• Granta's fortieth anniversary issue is a selection of fiction and essays published in the magazine between 1979 and 2013. -- Introduction.

Contents:

• Introduction / Sigrid Rausing
• Cousins / Angela Carter
• The summer after the war / Kazuo Ishiguro
• Evensong / Todd McEwen
• A coup / Bruce Chatwin
• The fall of Saigaon / James Fenton
• Tadpoles / Primo Levi
• The imam and the Indian / Amitav Ghosh
• Menudo / Raymond Carver
• His Roth / Philip Roth
• Glitches / John Gregory Dunne
• The snow in Ghana / Ryszard Kapuściński
• The little winter / Joy Williams
• At Yankee Stadium / Don DeLillo
• The zoo in Basel / John Berger
• Dreams for hire / Gabriel García Márquez
• Editorial / Bill Buford
• Where is Kilgali? / Lindsey Hilsum
• Agnes of Iowa / Lorrie Moore
• Nadine at forty / Hilary Mantel
• Those who felt differently / Ian Jack
• Self-conciousness / Edward W. Said
• Editing Vidia / Diana Athill
• Shrinks / Edmund White
• Kiltykins / Ved Mehta
• The view from this end / Alexandra Fuller
• How to write about Africa / Binyavanga Wainaina
• Lost cat / Mary Gaitskill
• The dreadful mucamas
• All I know about Gertrude Stein
• Alwaus the same snow and always the same uncle / Herta Müller.

Control Number: 2750927

Series:

• Granta
• Granta ; 147
• Granta ; 147.

Subjects:

• Literature -- Collections.
• Literature, Modern -- 20th century.
• Literature, Modern -- 21st century.

Genre: Fiction.

Other Authors:

• Container of (work): Athill, Diana. Editing Vidia.
• Container of (work): Berger, John. Zoo in Basel.
• Container of (work): Buford, Bill. Editorial.
• Container of (work): Carter, Angela, 1940-1992. Cousins.
• Container of (work): Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988. Menudo.
• Container of (work): Chatwin, Bruce, 1940-1989. Coup.
• Container of (work): Davis, Lydia, 1947- Dreadful mucamas.
• Container of (work): DeLillo, Don. At Yankee Stadium.
• Container of (work): Dunne, John Gregory, 1932-2003. Glitches.
• Container of (work): Fenton, James, 1949- Fall of Saigon.
• Container of (work): Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- View from this end.
• Container of (work): Gaitskill, Mary, 1954- Lost cat.
• Container of (work): García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014. Me alquilo para soñar. English.
• Container of (work): Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- Imam and the Indian.
• Container of (work): Hilsum, Lindsey. Where is Kilgali?
• Container of (work): Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- Summer after the war.
• Container of (work): Jack, Ian, 1945- Those who felt differently.
• Container of (work): Kapuściński, Ryszard. Snow in Ghana.
• Container of (work): Levi, Primo, 1919-1987. Tadpoles.
• Container of (work): Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022. Nadine at forty.
• Container of (work): McEwen, Todd. Evensong.
• Container of (work): Mehta, Ved, 1934-2021. Kiltykins.
• Container of (work): Moore, Lorrie. Agnes of Iowa.
• Container of (work): Müller, Herta, 1953- Always the same snow and always the same uncle.
• Container of (work): Roth, Philip. His Roth.
• Container of (work): Said, Edward W. Self-conciousness.
• Container of (work): Wainaina, Binyavanga. Works.
• Container of (work): White, Edmund, 1940- Shrinks.
• Container of (work): Williams, Joy, 1944- Little winter.
• Container of (work): Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- All I know about Gertrude Stein.
• Rausing, Sigrid, editor.