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← Back to all issuesGranta 124: Travel
Summer 2013
From the Amazon to rural China, west Texas to the caves that lurk beneath the Peak District, this issue of Granta takes you out of your chair and out into the world. Haruki Murakami goes home to Kobe, Teju Cole meditates on danger in Lagos and Lina Wolff imagines a woman adrift in Madrid. Here are eighteen collisions between people and the places that have made them, shaped them and terrified them.
From this Issue
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The Perfect Last Days of Mr Sengupta
Siddartha Mukherjee
‘The point of lucid death,’ he said, ‘is to retain the consciousness of dying, while blunting the agony of it.’
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Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Lina Wolff
‘No one here is normal except you, and you’re not even from Spain.’
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String Theory
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
‘On tenterhooks / you think how string constricts, how / it connects, how you followed it back / to Rawtenstall.’
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A Rationalist in the Jungle
Héctor Abad
‘A pale-faced, near-sighted urbanite like me is nothing less than handicapped in the heart of the jungle.’
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Tour Guide
Archive of Modern Conflict & Phil Klay
‘We record the reality we’re supposed to have, and then go back later and tell ourselves that it was the reality we experienced.’
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Barrenland
A Yi
‘I no longer feared that she would entrap me; my heart would not soften.’
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Compass Plant
Rachael Boast
One sprig should do, in a wayfarer’s satchel, to assist in losing all bearings until...
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Seestück
Steffi Klenz
Artist Steffi Klenz recaptures portraits based on photographs of travellers, explorers and seamen who were lost in open waters, and whose bodies were never recovered.
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The Best Hotel
Sonia Faleiro
I The village elder had recommended the hotel. He called it the best hotel in...
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Geese
Ellen Bryant Voigt
there is no cure for temperament it’s how we recognize ourselves but sometimes within it...
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Blood Money
Miroslav Penkov
‘At first the Gypsies didn’t know how to answer their cellphone.’
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Water Has No Enemy
Teju Cole
‘The city is a sea that can swallow you at any time, a monster that can lash out without warning, a hell of variables and uncertainties.’
