A01=Ian Jack
Author_Ian Jack
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Product details
- ISBN 9780903141840
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 147 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2006
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The politics of religion around the world, featuring: Nadeem Aslam, Diana Athill, Geoff Dyer, Nell Freudenberger, Simon Gray, A L Kennedy, Richard Mabey, John McGahern, Andrew Martin, Pankaj Mishra, Blake Morrison, Alison Smith, Lucretia Stewart - on their personal experiences - close, baffling, acrimonious or non-existent - of the divine
An interview with Orhan Pamuk; Wendell Steavenson in Iraq;Andrew Brown among in Sweden;Jackie Kay on meeting her father for the first time;John Borneman on fathers and sons in Syria; Kees Beekmans in the 'black schools' of Amsterdam.
Plus new fiction by Gary Shteyngart, Karen Russell and Kamran Nazeer.
And a photo-essay by David Graham: Acts of God.
An interview with Orhan Pamuk; Wendell Steavenson in Iraq;Andrew Brown among in Sweden;Jackie Kay on meeting her father for the first time;John Borneman on fathers and sons in Syria; Kees Beekmans in the 'black schools' of Amsterdam.
Plus new fiction by Gary Shteyngart, Karen Russell and Kamran Nazeer.
And a photo-essay by David Graham: Acts of God.
Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, and the author of a collection of journalism, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. He lives in London and now writes for the Guardian.
