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Summer 2009
Granta 107 features work by Kenzaburō Ōe, Mary Gaitksill, Mahmoud Darwish, Rupert Thomson, William T. Vollmann, Javier Marias, Lionel Shriver and many more.
From this Issue
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Trick
Sam Willetts
‘The unexceptional mystery takes place: / around eleven, love turns to matter’
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Lost Cat
Mary Gaitskill
‘I wish I had thought back: “Don’t worry. Stay where you are. I will find you.” Instead I thought “I’m scared too. I don’t know where you are.”’
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The Encirclement
Tamas Dobozy
‘Teleki would gasp and sputter and grow red in the face and the audience would love it.’ Tamas Dobozy in Granta 107
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Capital Gains
Rana Dasgupta
‘The society that has emerged in post-liberalization India is one consumed both by euphoria and dread.’
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From the Journals of Mahmoud Darwish 1941–2008
Mahmoud Darwish
‘I’m alive even though I feel no pain.’
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Call Me By My Proper Name
Rupert Thomson
‘My mother’s brother was christened Cedric, but people always called him Joe.’
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Airships
Javier Marías
‘We live in an age that tends to depersonalize even people and is, in principle, averse to anthropomorphism.’
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The Mind-Child
Remembering J.G. Ballard
Will Self
‘Jim had been in hospital over Christmas’
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Body Snatchers
William T. Vollmann
‘The All-American Canal was now dark black with phosphorescent streaks where the border’s eyes stained it with yellow tears.’
