Snitches, liars, spies: treachery lies at the heart of our most dramatic stories. Yet the truly devastating betrayals come from our loved ones, our homes - and from within ourselves.
'The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.' -- Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
The nature of what's authentic and what's not confounds me daily in Japan.' - Pico Iyer, 'The Beauty of the Package' 'I wanted to make something that showed "real" and "fake" becoming friendly with each other.' - Yuji Hamada, Primal Mountain
Lunule. Moon rise over the reservoir - a hush of wind on the embankment, fingertip indentations in the grass, each with a darker lunule. She asks: What are you doing? I reply: Thinking about my life.' - Will Self, 'Key Stroke
"This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories"--Page 4 of cover.
Four judges - novelists A.S. Byatt and Salman Rushdie, bookseller John Mitchinson and "Granta" editor Bill Buford - set out to identify the most talented writers of the new generation. This is a collection of their fiction.
This issue of "Granta" was inspired by the original campaign for the Best Young British Novelists. This book includes the writing from the 20 writers judged in 1983.
For the third time, Granta has selected 20 writers under 40 whose writing represents the best promise or achievement in British fiction. The collection includes stories by Sarah Waters, Rachel Cusk, Robert McLiam Wilson, Rachel Seiffert, Philip Hensher, A. L. Kennedy and Toby Litt.
The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.
The second volume in the Tales of the Otori trilogy - a journey of revenge and treachery, honour and loyalty, beauty and passion, which does for medieval Japan what Game of Thrones does for medieval Europe.