Granta 124: Travel
Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone world beneath the Peak District. And Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the aftermath of the 1995 earthquake.

In this issue--which includes poems by Charles Simic and Ellen Bryant Voigt, a story by Miroslav Penkov, and non-fiction by David Searcy, Teju Cole, and Hector Abad--GRANTA presents a panoramic view of our shared landscape and investigates our motivations for exploring it. “One’s destination is never a place,” Henry Miller wrote, “but a new way of seeing things.”

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Granta 124: Travel
Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone world beneath the Peak District. And Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the aftermath of the 1995 earthquake.

In this issue--which includes poems by Charles Simic and Ellen Bryant Voigt, a story by Miroslav Penkov, and non-fiction by David Searcy, Teju Cole, and Hector Abad--GRANTA presents a panoramic view of our shared landscape and investigates our motivations for exploring it. “One’s destination is never a place,” Henry Miller wrote, “but a new way of seeing things.”

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Overview

Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life and on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone world beneath the Peak District. And Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the aftermath of the 1995 earthquake.

In this issue--which includes poems by Charles Simic and Ellen Bryant Voigt, a story by Miroslav Penkov, and non-fiction by David Searcy, Teju Cole, and Hector Abad--GRANTA presents a panoramic view of our shared landscape and investigates our motivations for exploring it. “One’s destination is never a place,” Henry Miller wrote, “but a new way of seeing things.”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781905881697
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date: 08/06/2013
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

About The Author

John Freeman’s criticism has appeared in more than two hundred newspapers around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Times (UK), and The Wall Street Journal. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, THE TYRANNY OF EMAIL, was published in 2009. HOW TO READ A NOVELIST will be published in 2013. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Zyzzyva.

Table of Contents

The Captain Rattawut Lapcharoensap 7

The Perfect Last Day of Mr Sengupta Siddhartha Mukherjee 35

Underland Robert Macfarlane 43

Poem Charles Simic 60

Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Una Wolff 61

The Man at the River Dave Eggers 75

Poem Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch 80

The Hudson River School David Searcy 81

A Rationalist in the Jungle Héctor Abad 103

Tour Guide: Archive of Modern Conflict, with an introduction Phil Klay 126

Barrenland A Yi 145

A Walk to Kobe Haruki Murakami 161

Poem Rachael Boast 176

Seestück Steffi Klenz 177

The Best Hotel Sonia Faleiro 193

Poem Ellen Bryant Voigt 210

Blood Money Miroslav Penkov 211

Water Has No Enemy Teju Cole 235

Notes on contributors 254

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