After the war

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"How long is the shadow of a battle, an explosion, a revolution? What stories arise in the wake of devastation? Lindsey Hilsum returns to Rwanda two decades after witnessing the beginning of genocide. Patrick French writes of his great-uncle, a World War I hero who left behind a 'saturating cult of remembrance.' From air-raid drills in Paul Auster's America to a calf with a broken foot in Herta Müller's Rumania, this is how we live after the war...

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Postwar reconstruction Personal narratives

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Granta Granta ; 125 Granta, ISSN: 0017-3231 Granta, ISSN: 0017-3231 ; 125

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ISBN:

9781905881710

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:

Cover title
"The magazine of new writing"--Cover

Contents:

The rainy season / Lindsey Hilsum
Mess / Romesh Gunesekera
Pax Americana / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Crow fair / Thomas McGuane
Late in life / A.L. Kennedy
from Opening Invocation / Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
Zone of absolute discomfort / Justin Jin
Always the same snow and always the same uncle / Herta Müller
1979 / Aminatta Forna
A sparrow fallen / Dave Heath
You remember the planes / Paul Auster
From dream to dream / Yiyun Li
Stalkers / Hari Kunzru
Revelations / Ange Mlinko
After the war / Patrick French

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3333847

Other Authors:

Auster, Paul, 1947-2024. You remember the planes
Dadelsen, Jean-Paul de, 1913-1957. Opening invocation. Selections
Forna, Aminatta. 1979
Freeman, John, 1974- editor
French, Patrick, 1966-2023. After the war
Gunesekera, Romesh. Mess
Heath, David, 1931-2016. Sparrow fallen
Hilsum, Lindsey. Rainy season
Jin, Justin, 1974- Zone of absolute discomfort
Kennedy, A. L. Late in life
Kunzru, Hari, 1969- Stalkers
Li, Yiyun, 1972- From dream to dream
McGuane, Thomas. Short stories. Selections
Mlinko, Ange. Revelations
Müller, Herta, 1953- Always the same snow and always the same uncle
Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. Pax Americana
Rausing, Sigrid, editor

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