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Winter 2007
This celebratory 100th issue, guest-edited by novelist William Boyd, features contributions from many of Granta’s most distinguished contributors, including Martin Amis, Doris Lessing, Harold Pinter, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jayne Anne Phillips and Ian McEwan.
From this Issue
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One Hundred: Introduction
William Boyd
Granta 100: One Hundred’s guest-editor on the challenge of putting together a milestone issue.
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On Buying a Clavichord
James Fenton
‘Your clavichord breathes as sweetly as your heart.’
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Three Character Sketches
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘For Fataumata, and others like her, dying tragically is dying naturally.’
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In-flight Entertainment
Helen Simpson
‘All you needed for the modern world was to know how to work a remote control.’
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Eel Tail
Alice Oswald
‘untranslatable hissed interruptions / unspeakable wide chapped lips’
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Chickens and Eggs
Doris Lessing
‘Twenty-one days it takes to hatch eggs, twenty-one nights, and there sits the great fierce hen who had accepted me as protector and jailer for that time.’
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End of the Pier Show
Michael Hofmann
‘They were fascinated / by what they seemed to have contained.’
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The White Hole of Bombay
Nicholas Shakespeare
‘If you like people who hate each other, it’s paradise.’
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The Joy of Difficulty
Lavinia Greenlaw
‘did you breathe differently / as if equipped with an aqualung’
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Estonia, Out in the Country
Ingo Schulze
‘I didn’t believe my eyes, not even when I saw what was happening in front of them.’
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17 Melbourne Road
Oliver Reynolds
‘A room at the top of the street / preserving his life in sunlight’
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May We Be Forgiven
A.M. Homes
‘Now I understand the meaning of — it just happened. Or — it was an accident.’
