num_pages: 316
description: This special edition of Granta celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with a rich collection of new pieces by some of the writers who helped make its reputation, and by others who may do so in future.MARTIN AMIS rewrites Jane Austen for a film of Northanger AbbeyAMIT CHAUDHURI meets the troubled icon of secular IndiaPHILIP GOUREVITCH asks why we commemorate genocideJAN MORRIS picks her nose and wonders what death will be likeWENDELL STEAVENSON gets to know an Iraqi terroristGRAHAM SWIFT remembers his fatherTIM ADAMS learns why shredders are a good ideaJAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON reveals his boyhood as a champion bomb-makerPATRICIA HAMPL sees the wrong picture snapped in PalestineISABEL HILTON discovers that General Stroessner, ex-dictator of Paraguay, is still alivePANKAJ MISHRA finds out what it takes to make it in BollywoodBLAKE MORRISON examines the afterlife of his family memoirNew fiction from PAUL AUSTER, WILLIAM BOYD, J. ROBERT LENNONand HELEN SIMPSON, and a newly-discovered story by one of England's finest short story writers, V.S. PRITCHETT.And a picture essay by TOBY GLANVILLE, tracing the course of the river that gave the magazine its name
language: English
title: Granta 87: Jubilee
titlecomplete: Granta 87: Jubilee
genres: Anthologies, Short Stories, Literature, Essays, Fiction
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Grove Press, Granta