The magazine Granta is renowned for its expansive coverage of important issues, the diversity of its writers, and the breadth of talent it displays. This latest collection features a selection of fiction, reportage, memoir, and more, centering around the central theme of "India, " in honor of the continent's 50 years of independence. Includes work from Salman Rushdie, Patrick French, Mark Tully, and others.
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Ian Jack introduces India's past 50 years, from nationhood through mid-life emergency measures crisis to its overwhelming potential. Twenty-two acclaimed writers wax pensive and lyrical: there's new fiction by Anita Desai, Amit Chaudhuri, Arundhati Roy, and R. K. Narayan; memoirs by Mark Tully, Nirad Chaudhuri, and Ved Mehta; pictures by Dayanita Singh; poems from Vikram Seth and Michael Ondaatje; an autobiographical account of the life of a pariah by Viramma; and a snippet of V. S. Naipaul's diary. All examine India's past, reflect on her present, and ponder her future now that her population--nearly a billion people--is on the brink of surpassing China's.
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It contains the familiar mixture of short essays and reportage, extracts from longer works in progress, photographs and literary curiosities. This formula makes no attempt at coherence. It stands or falls by the potential its subject offers for reflections from multiple perspectives ... and by the quality of the individual contributions.... Granta maintains a consistently high standard, but this collection is superb. -- The Economist
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beautiful short story by R.K. Narayan/A.Roy in this issue.,
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This review is from: India: Granta 57 (Paperback)
Granta declares at the very beginning that the reader must brace himself for invigorating new Indian fiction, and then goes on to serve up stories by American and British journalists positively swooning with nostalgia:- there is one story by an American journalist that is full of such useful everyday hints as running in a zig-zag when chased by an elephant. Still, it is well worth it for the two beautiful stories: one by R.K. Narayan, all opaque and glimmering in twilight, and an excerpt from arundhati roy's novel, which is just superb
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