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Autumn 2007
This issue of Granta is about storytelling – the stories we invent, the stories we tell about other people and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our lives. Featuring an exclusive interview with Richard Ford and a photo essay from Joel Sternfield.
From this Issue
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Operation
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘I like to think now that he knew how much I liked him, from the beginning, and that we were both equal participants in the ritual.’
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The Virgin of Esmeraldas
Nell Freudenberger
‘Everything was okay until Marisol accidentally broke a china cup with a rose on it that her stepmother had brought with her from DR.’
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Which Reminded Her, Later
Jon McGregor
‘It's the desperate ones who come up with the best stories.’
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The Earth from the Air
Kitty Hauser
‘It takes another kind of eye, another viewpoint to reveal to us the truth about the world.’
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Tree Thieves
Josh Weil
‘The jungle was all stillness, time kept only by the markings of his breath.’
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In the Country
Tessa Hadley
‘She wondered if she would have the audacity, when the time came, to let herself go like that.’
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Naples ’04
Roberto Saviano
‘It may seem strange, but the instant before death is marked by a sense of humiliation.’
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Wheels of Progress
Gemini Wahhaj
‘Now Bangladesh survives only on aid, on other people feeding its people.’
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Whaling
Philip Hoare
‘Even in death, it seemed, whales present us with gargantuan problems.’
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The Crocodile Lover
Helon Habila
She said, ‘Over my dead body,’ and so they killed her. The soldiers carried her...
