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Granta 107: Summer Reading

by Mary Gaitskill, Timothy Phillips, John Freeman
RM43.51 MYR
Granta 107: Summer Reading - Thryft
Granta 107: Summer Reading - Thryft

Diverse literary collection; global narrative perspectives.

If you appreciate a literary mosaic, Granta 107 could be a treasure trove for you. This edition provides a variety of compelling voices from around the globe, blending genres like reportage, fiction, and memoirs seamlessly. Engaging with it is like embarking on a global literary journey, exploring deeply personal stories to geopolitical narratives through the eyes of acclaimed writers and journalists. It promises diversity not only in content but in emotion and intellect as well.

Granta 107: Summer Reading

by Mary Gaitskill, Timothy Phillips, John Freeman
RM43.51 MYR
ISBN: 9781905881116
Authors: Mary Gaitskill, Timothy Phillips, John Freeman
Publisher: Granta
Date of Publication: 2009-06-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction
Related Topics: Essays
Goodreads rating: 3.71
(rated by 42 readers)

Description

With its mixture of investigative reportage, narrative non-fiction, photography, memoir, fiction and brilliant journalism, Granta 107 follows on from the critically-acclaimed summer reading issue to showcase more of the best new writing from around the world.Join Mary Gaitskill as she meditates on the meaning of a lost cat, Will Self as he walks across Tehran in celebration of the revolution, thirty years on; be there as Timothy Phillips recovers the letters of Eva Reckitt, an English woman monitored by MI5 from the 1920s until after the Second World War; read Xan Rice’s account of the Polisario’s movement for independence in the long-disputed Western Sahara; and Owen Sheers travels to Zimbabwe where his cousin is setting up an orphanage.
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