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Granta 114 (2011)

by Granta: The Magazine of New Writing(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1905881339 (ISBN13: 9781905881338)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Granta Books

series

Granta

review 1: More non-fiction than I expected, but I also thought that the title "Aliens" meant space aliens, not strangers in a strange land aliens. Many of the non-fiction pieces were interesting reads, but none were particularly outstanding. Mostly long-form, magazine-style, personal essays, with the occasional narrative thrown in to make things a little more literary. One of the stories in the collection, Nami Mun's "The Anniversary," was phenomenal. It was like a Raymond Carver story--harsh and heartbreaking.
review 2: I enjoyed the pieces by Dinaw Mengestu, Nami Mun, Madeleine Thien and Binyavanga Wainaina. I hope to read some longer works by Wainaina. I liked Paul Theroux's work, even though he tends write only about the corruptions, perversions, and inadequacies of ... morelands and people--in this instance, Great Britain. He includes a description from Borges of the Falklands War, "like two bald men fighting over a comb". less

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