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Spring 2013
For three consecutive decades, Granta has foreseen the brilliant careers of the British literary scene, showcasing an array of talent that included Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Rose Tremain, Alan Hollinghurst, A.L. Kennedy, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Jeanette Winterson, David Mitchell and Zadie Smith. Here, in a collection of new work by twenty writers, is the future of literature in Britain: Granta’s fourth BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS.
From this Issue
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Anwar Gets Everything
Tahmima Anam
‘Two ways a man can go here, in the direction of God or the direction of believing there is nothing up there but a sun that will kill you whether you pray five times or not.’
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After the Hedland
Evie Wyld
‘I feel the pull of being alone, of answering to no one, the safety of being unknown and far away.’
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Slow Motion
Adam Thirlwell
‘It really wasn’t normal for me to wake up and not know how I got there. A normal pastime for me was to be intent on mathematical problems, or models of voting patterns in different democratic states.’
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The End of Endings
Steven Hall
‘Entropy is what drives time forwards, and only forwards.’
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The Best of Young British Novelists
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander's stunning portraits of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
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You Don’t Have To Live Like This
Benjamin Markovits
‘It felt like everything that had happened to me in college, everything I had learned to be comfortable with, had produced this jerk standing naked in the water, splashing his best friend’s girlfriend in the chest.’
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Tomorrow
Joanna Kavenna
‘She was living as herself, in herself, without ever thinking about what that meant.’
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The Reservation
Sarah Hall
‘He can dream of fields of unicorns or invest in the reanimation of sabretooth DNA, if the prognostication visits him.’
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Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
‘I didn’t enclose a note, though there were a few things I’d have liked to say. Restraint is classier.’
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Arrivals
Sunjeev Sahota
‘But he couldn’t lose the sense that this was a turning point in his life, that she’d been delivered to him for a reason.’
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Submersion
Ross Raisin
‘It is obvious now that we can have no control over our journey, or its end.’
