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← Back to all issuesGranta 73: Necessary Journeys
Spring 2001
This issue of Granta is devoted to writing about the journeys we have to make. It contains new work by Ian McEwan, Isabel Hilton, Decca Aitkenhead and Ryszard Kapuscinski.
From this Issue
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Dunkirk
Ian McEwan
‘There were horrors enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterwards would not let him go.’
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Yangdol’s Journey
Manuel Bauer
‘Every year, more than 2,000 Tibetan refugees arrive in Nepal and India seeking asylum. Almost fifty per cent of them are children.’
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Burying The Emperor
John Ryle
‘Twenty-five years after his death, His Imperial Majesty, King of Kings, Elect of God, Defender of the Faith,was finally being laid to rest, though they still could not be certain how he met his end.’
John Ryle attends the funeral of Haile Sellasie.
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Lovely Girls, Very Cheap
Decca Aitkenhead
‘A bar girl in Ko Samui is employed to attract customers. Almost every bar has at least one girl, and some of the larger bars have up to twenty’.
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I Heard It Through The Grapevine
James Campbell
At the turn of 1962–3, James Baldwin was regarded as a writer with the power...
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The Lazy River
Ryszard Kapuściński
‘One cannot compare the tropical forest with any European forest or with any equatorial jungle.’
