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← Back to all issuesGranta 39: The Body
Spring 1992
Is it us or is it nothing more than the container of what we really are? With: Abraham Verghese, Jeanette Winterson, Michael Dibdin, Geoffrey Biddle, Todd McEwen, Hanif Kureishi, Giorgio Pressburger, Anchee Min, Antonin Kratochvil, John Conroy, Peregrine Hodson, and Victoria Tokareva. Plus: fiction by Salman Rushdie and Redmond O’Hanlon in the Congo.
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The Congo Dinosaur
Redmond O’Hanlon
‘The boy lay stretched out on a low wooden platform under an orange tree.’
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Soundings
Abraham Verghese
‘On the first day of June, 1972, I was taught how to percuss the body.’
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The Pathology Lesson
Michael Dibdin
‘The autopsy is complete. I thank the pathologist, who thanks me for coming. We both thank the assistant, who in turn thanks us. It is all very polite, very English. You almost expect the cadavers to add their thanks as well.’
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Spring Break at Daytona Beach
Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark’s photographs of spring break at Daytona Beach in Granta 39: The Body.
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My Daughter
Geoffrey Biddle
Geoffrey Biddle’s photographs of his family in Granta 39: The Body.
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My Mother’s Eyes
Todd McEwen
‘My mother has a small brown book, the kind of notebook made of alligators and sold to wealthy people who do not make notes.’
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Teeth
Giorgio Pressburger
‘One day in January a tall thin man with long white hair came into our courtyard. He was draped in a green cloak, torn in various places.’
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Wild Women, Wild Men
Hanif Kureishi
‘When I saw them waiting beside their car, I said, ‘You must be freezing.’ It was cold and foggy, the first night of winter, and the two women had matching short skirts and skimpy tops; their legs were bare.’
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Sideshow
Antonin Kratochvil
Antonin Kratochvil’s photographs of sideshow performers for Granta 39: The Body.
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The Internment
John Conroy
‘In a low-rent corner of Belfast's city centre is a district known as Smithfield, and on its main street there is a market, an anarchist bookshop, a public toilet and a bookmaker's called Stanley’s.’
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At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers
Salman Rushdie
‘The bidders who have assembled for the auction of the magic slippers bear little resemblance to your usual saleroom.’
