Granta 57

By Granta: The Magazine of New Writing

Book Overview

Ian Jack introduces India's past 50 years, from nationhood through mid-life emergency measures crisis to its overwhelming potential. Twenty-two acclaimed writers wax pensive and lyrical: there's new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140141472
• ISBN13: 9780140141474
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

beautiful short story by R.K. Narayan/A.Roy in this issue.

Granta declares at the very beginning that the reader must brace himself for invigorating new Indian fiction, and then goes on to serve up stories by American and British journalists positively swooning with nostalgia:- there is one story by an American journalist that is full of such useful everyday hints as running in a zig-zag when chased by an elephant. Still, it is well worth it for the two beautiful stories: one by R.K. Narayan, all opaque and glimmering in twilight, and an excerpt from arundhati roy's novel, which is just superb