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← Back to all issuesGranta 68: Love Stories
Winter 1999
This issue of Granta is dedicated to love, or more often the lack of it, the loss of it, and the search for it. It includes stories about sibling rivalry, about rediscovering parental love, and about the end of marriage and enduring friendship.
From this Issue
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Famous People
Orhan Pamuk
‘Life is dull if there's no story to listen to or nothing to watch’.
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Fit Mother
Peter Ho Davies
‘The court had given me six months to prove I was a responsible adult and a fit mother’.
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Then and Now
Daniel Meadows
’Daniel Meadows has traced many of the people he photographed then, but this is of little interest to us‘.
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Exchange of Pleasant Words
Aleksandar Hemon
‘What year was it? We have chosen to believe it was 1811’.
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Uncle Ed
Keith Fleming
‘Back in 1976 when I was sixteen, my uncle, the novelist Edmund White, rescued me from the messy aftermath of my parents' divorce and brought me to live with him in New York’.
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The Furnace
Lydia Davis
‘My father has trouble with his hearing and does not like to talk on the phone, so I talk on the phone mainly to my mother’.
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Closer
David Malouf
‘There was a time, not so long ago, when we saw my Uncle Charles twice each year, at Easter and Christmas’.
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Asking for it
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘Having my hair cut one morning in February 1999, I fell foul of one of those barber-shop discussions which are a feature of life here in Italy’.
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Going Abroad
W.G. Sebald
‘In Vienna I visited none of the sights and spoke not a word to a soul’.
