| Granta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory Contributor(s): Rausing, Sigrid (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1905881878 ISBN-13: 9781905881871 Publisher: Granta Books OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | American - African American |
| Dewey: 808.8 |
| Series: Magazine of New Writing |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories. Ludmila Ulitskaya's diary of cancer treatment in Russia and Israel; Raja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in Ramallah; Janine di Giovanni remembers Iraq before and after the American invasion; Charles Glass on the jihadist occupation of an Armenian village in Syria; Fiction by Jesse Ball, Kevin Canty, Jon Fosse, Sebasti Jovani, China Mi ville, Ottessa Moshfegh and Tracy O'Neill; Poetry by John Ashbery, Peter Gizzi, Kathryn Maris and Sandra Simonds; Photography by No mie Goudal and Ian Teh; Plus: The second act of Anne Carson's TV show, 'Krapp Hour' |
Contributor Bio(s): Rausing, Sigrid: - Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and Everything is Wonderful, which has been tran |