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← Back to all issuesGranta 118: Exit Strategies
Winter 2012
In this issue John Barth contemplates the end of writing fiction. Alice Munro explores the interior world of an elderly woman losing her memory. Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his family’s escape from the Bosnian War, and the love and fate of Mek, their Irish setter. David Long writes about a man haunted by a sexual encounter decades ago. Claire Messud searches for her father’s Beirut, long since gone, as he himself lies dying in a hospice in Connecticut.
From this Issue
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The Road to Damascus
Claire Messud
‘How can it be, that all that is in us dies with us?’
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City Boy
Judy Chicurel
‘I would have dreams that woke me in the middle of the night, my heart shaking inside my body.’
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Summer
Jacob Newberry
‘I met Jay two summers after Katrina, two years after my parents separated, two years after I came out.’
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America
Chinelo Okparanta
‘It is a reluctant kind of disregard that stems from a feeling of shame.’
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The Provincials
Daniel Alarcón
‘I'd been out of the Conservatory for about a year when my great-uncle Raúl died.’
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The Beginner’s Goodbye
Anne Tyler
‘Sometimes the most recent moments can seem so long, long ago.’
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Pay Attention
Sophie Cabot Black
‘I can only do what is here. But you / Have an entire congregation of choice’
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Bonfire
David Long
In his New England town, when Hawkins was a boy, Independence Day was celebrated...
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In Sight of the Lake
Alice Munro
‘She liked how the latticework would provide a touch of fantasy.’
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War Dogs
Aleksandar Hemon
‘He never bothered the refugees, never barked at those miserable people.’
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Santa Claus is in the Living Room
Santiago Roncagliolo
‘I soon understood that if I wanted to get my father back I was going to have to help him get rid of the competition.’
