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← Back to all issuesGranta 95: Loved Ones
Autumn 2006
In this issue of Granta, writers consider their relationships with those who were, or should have been, close to them. Jeremy Seabrook on being estranged from a twin; Melanie McFadyean on the houses in her life; and fiction from David Malouf and Jim Shepard.
From this Issue
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Every Move You Make
David Malouf
‘This is what sorrow is that knows no explanation or answer.’
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Help, Help, Help
Jonathan Taylor
‘Day in, day out, my father had to watch us smiling and laughing, while he couldn't join.’
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Mrs Covet
Rebecca Miller
‘But you can't kill a ladybug. It's terrible luck to kill a ladybug.’
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Five Houses
Melanie McFadyean
‘I live here, we say, this is my house, my home. We settle, dwell, adorn. A house feels permanent. But this illusion of security can end in a minute.’
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Early Retirement
John Lanchester
‘My father used to tell the story of a tutor at his university, a Viennese professor of something or other.’
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Year of the Monkey
Fan Wu
‘I stood in front of the roller coaster, whose winding tracks looked like intestines in a demon's stomach.’
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Mao Comes to Sydney
Georgia Blain
‘After all, it was only politics, and I was too young to understand.’
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Twins
Jeremy Seabrook
‘Separation has been, perhaps, the single biggest determining influence in my life.’
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Resolution
Jim Shepard
‘Everything suggests an ongoing and immemorial enervation. A kind of trance in the air.’
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Where is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?
James Lasdun
‘The fire department didn't have a tall enough ladder to reach his body.’
