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← Back to all issuesGranta 69: The Assassin
Spring 2000
In a powerful piece of investigation, Henk van Woerden reconstructs the strange, affecting history of Demitrios Tsafendas – the man who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd, South African premier and architect of apartheid. Also in this issue: Diana Athill on the need to like V. S. Naipaul; Richard Williams on the search for a long-lost jazz trumpeter; and stories by Graham Swift, Hanif Kureishi, and Paul Theroux.
From this Issue
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Editing Vidia
Diana Athill
‘I thought so highly of Vidia’s writing and felt his presence on our list to be so important that I simply could not allow myself not to like him.’
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The Assassin
Henk van Woerden
‘On 11 February 1955 a man could be seen wandering about the streets of Hamburg ’.
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Honolulu Hotel Stories
Paul Theroux
’The Christmas carols in Waikiki were being sung in Japanese‘.
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Goodbye, Mother
Hanif Kureishi
‘If you think the living are difficult to deal with, the dead can be worse‘.
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Our Nicky’s Heart
Graham Swift
‘Frank Randall had three sons: Michael, Eddy and Mark. That was fine by him‘.
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Gifted
Richard Williams
‘The interim report filed by the investigator from the coroner's bureau listed him as a black male, 5ft 7in tall, weighing 1351b‘.
