Granta 105: Lost and Found

By Granta: The Magazine of New Writing

Granta 105 witnesses moments of staggering change and discovery, bringing us face-to-face with loss and renewal in a rapidly transforming world. In this riveting 105th issue, Granta places itself at the forefront of change and discovery. Elena Lappin is in Tel Aviv, hot on the trail of a stash of unpublished Kafka papers. Elizabeth Pisani meditates on the legacy of Tiananmen Square twenty years after reporting from the heart of the riots. Karen Wright travels to Moscow to uncover how Russian oligarchs are running the international art scene. And the extraordinary work of a lost writer appears in print for the first time, excerpted from a novel she was working on when she took her own life. From Ireland's Catholic priests-once exported around the world and now under threat even in their own country- to the hitherto obscure music saved from extinction via the vast exchange mart of the Internet, Granta 105 takes us on an exhilarating journey across place and time, recording moments of disappearance and rebirth in all their complexity and strangeness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929001355
• ISBN13: 9781929001354
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the better recent issues

The best editions of Granta are almost always those that have a focus on reportage vs fiction and this issue thankfully has a heavier weight of reportage than snippets of fiction. The best piece is Melanie McFaddyean's piece on the Ben Needham case, and the impact of the loss of the 2 year old boy 18 years ago has had on the family. The contrast from the hysteria surrounding the McCann case could not be more marked. Also good is Maurice Walsh's piece on the state of the priesthood in Ireland - where only 2 new priests were ordained in the whole country in 2007. I also enjoyed Andrew Martin's article on the joys of pipe smoking, Don Paterson's sardonic account of attempting to be a happy clappy Christian as a teenager and even Jeremy Treglown's piece on the movement in Spain to exhume the Republican corpses from the Civil War, even if he is a bit hysterical in his descriptions of the Falange. All in all, one of the better recent issues (which have generally been pretty poor)