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Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While

By Sigrid Rausing
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Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While explores diverse narratives and voices, including Lindsey Hilsum on cholera in Hutu refugee camps, Ian Jack's reflections on Glasgow's toxic slag heaps and their impact on the aristocracy, and personal memoirs by Vidyan Ravinthiran and Rory Gleeson. The issue features poetry by Jason Allen-Paisant and Anthony Anaxagorou, alongside new fiction from Paul Dalla Rosa and Gwendoline Riley.
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Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While deals with absence and presence, immediacy and distance in a time when these concepts are increasingly troubled.

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This issue features Lindsey Hilsum, author of the award-winning In Extremis, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; Ian Jack on the toxic slag heaps of Glasgow and the aristocratic lives built on them; memoir by Vidyan Ravinthiran and Rory Gleeson; and poetry by Jason Allen-Paisant and Anthony Anaxagorou.

Plus, new fiction from Paul Dalla Rosa, shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and Gwendoline Riley, author of First Love.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781909889378

Publisher: Granta Magazine

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 February 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Magazine

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 145.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 305g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Sigrid Rausing

About the Author

Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything is Wonderful and Mayhem.

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