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← Back to all issuesGranta 116: Ten Years Later
Summer 2011
A street vendor in Tunisia, an American marine going home and a signals operator on a North Korean fishing trawler. From the battlefields of Afganistan to the streets of Mogadishu and Toronto, these are just a few of the stories in the issue of Granta that conjure the complexity and sorrow of life since 11 September 2001.
From this Issue
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Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah
‘In a world in which coercion is the norm, a human trafficker must have underlings as well.’
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Stones and Artichokes
Nicole Krauss
‘As we get older, the world grows to fit our fear of death.’
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In a Land of Silence
Janine di Giovanni
‘She tells me that he died because he refused to be silent.’
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The Terminal Check
Pico Iyer
‘The world is all mixed up these days, and America can no longer claim immunity.’
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Laikas I
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
‘Hilary hadn’t wanted to acknowledge A: herself as dog-lady; B: any problems re wolves or whatever.’
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The American Age, Iraq
Anthony Shadid
‘Nothing really escapes the detritus of death in this wreck of a city.’
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Veterans of a Foreign War
Elliott Woods
‘If they’re willing to do this for their country then I should be willing to make the same sacrifices.’
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Jihad Redux
Declan Walsh
‘American patience snapped, and Washington took matters into its own hands.’
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A Handful of Walnuts
Ahmed Errachidi & Clive Stafford Smith
‘There was no horizon, no life and nothing to see.’
