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Autumn 1987
Hanif Kureishi’s first novella: a tale of Nadia and Nina, of two sisters, two cities, two worlds, two passions. Plus: ‘An Escape from Kampala’, the story Graham Greene called ‘an illustration of how politics can turn insane’, Leslie Cockburn on the Contras’ cocaine trail, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Carlos Fuentes, and James Fenton’s ‘The Truce’.
From this Issue
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Events in the Skies
Doris Lessing
‘He told me that when he remembered his childhood that aeroplane was in the sky.’
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With Your Tongue Down My Throat
Hanif Kureishi
‘“Your father had a wife in India,” Ma says, wincing every time she says father.’
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Film Diary
Hanif Kureishi
‘I shove the script of Sammy and Rosie Get Laid through Stephen Frears's letter box and run. He rings a few hours later: “This isn't an innocent act!”’
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An Escape from Kampala
Wycliffe Kato
‘‘Be brave,’ she said, ‘pull yourself together. What you are about to see is worse than you ever imagined.’ She asked if I knew what Winston Churchill had called Uganda. He had called it the pearl of Africa.’
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America’s Secret War
Leslie Cockburn
‘Morales’s troubles began in the spring of 1984, when he was indicted for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine. It was this awkward development that made him particularly receptive to the proposal he received from a delegation of Contras and a CIA man that turned up at his Opa-locka office soon after the bad news.’
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Remission
Adam Mars-Jones
‘There's an awkward interval, when you're ill but not yet conditioned by illness.’
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Spoils
Nadine Gordimer
‘Everyone will be quite safe if they stay in the car and please roll up the windows, says the host.’
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The Man from Hiroshima
Maurizio Chierici
‘Then the explosion stunned me momentarily. Hiroshima disappeared under a yellow cloud. No one spoke after that.’
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The Discovery of Mexico
Carlos Fuentes
‘I was born on 11 November 1928, under the sign I would have chosen, Scorpio, and on a date shared with Dostoevsky, Crommelynck and Vonnegut.’
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How Great Thou Art
Graham Coster
‘At the very end we came upon him – others had seen him from time to time, and reported that he was still out there – and he was bigger even than we had expected.’
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Madrid
Tony Lyons
‘There was a note on the table: Phone Rafa, 983754. There were different Rafas known to me in Madrid, and at the moment I was in touch with none of them.’
