Granta 119. Britain

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    Klappentext/amazon-Vorstellung:
    In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances and negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is still perceived as being bound by tradition and class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography and art, Granta's Britain explores landscape, identities and stories of the British Isles.
    In 'Silt', Robert Macfarlane writes of the beauty, danger and mystery of a stretch of coastline in Essex. Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of Irish nationalist Roger Casement, executed at Pentonville Prison in 1916. Memoirs by Gary Younge, Andrea Stuart and Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada focus on the upheavals and migrations that brought them and their families to (and from) Britain. Rachel Seiffert, Ross Raisin, Cynan Jones and Jim Crace provide extracts of new novels: Seiffert describes Glasgow and Northern Ireland in the 1990s; Raisin paints a portrait of a young footballer struggling with his identity; Jones follows a boy on a brutal and transformative outing with his father and their dogs; Crace shows how the lives of English farmers changed drastically during the early Enclosures.
    The issue includes original short fiction by Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Tania James and Jon McGregor as well as poems by Simon Armitage, Jamie McKendrick, Don Paterson and Robin Robertson. It also introduces a new voice, Sam Byers, with an extract from his darkly comic debut novel, Idiopathy.
    Eigene Beurteilung:/Eigenzitat aus amazon.de:
    Hier haben wir die neueste Granta-Ausgabe und auch diesmal gibt es neben Kurzgeschichten wieder einige Gedichte und auch eine Photoserie. Die Gedichte sind nett, die Photoserie erschien mir in diesem Zusammenhang ein wenig unpassend - dafür kaufe ich eigentlich keine Band über neue Literatur und bei den Kurzgeschichten waren einige wirklich interessante Dinge dabei, wie etwa von Tania James (Lion and Panther in London"), Sam Byers ("Some other Kathrine") und Andrea Stuart ("Sugar in the Blood", das stark an Andrea Levy erinnert).
    Insgesamt nett um zwischendurch zu lesen, mit einigen bekannteren Beiträgern, wie Mario Vargas Llosa, Mark Haddon und John Burnside - auch ja und Tom Stoppard.
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