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Granta 149
Europe: Strangers in the Land
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Ideal for readers interested in Europe’s cultural and political shifts, especially those fascinated by recent history and contemporary issues surrounding European identity.
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Granta 149: Europe: Strangers in the Land is a timely and provocative interrogation of contemporary European identity.
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Granta 149 is titled 'New New Europe', marking the UK's departure from the EU, and features a range of commissioned pieces from respected writers on the state of Europe today. This harks back to the 1989 issue New Europe, which was themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing
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Granta 149
Granta 149 is titled 'New New Europe', marking the UK's departure from the EU, and features a range of commissioned pieces from respected writers on the state of Europe today. This harks back to the 1989 issue New Europe, which was themed around the response to the fall of the Berlin Wall.PaperbackSold Out
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ISBN: 9781909889286
Publisher: Granta Magazine
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 November 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Magazine
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 145.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 355g
Pages: 256
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Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta and Portobello Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm and the memoirs Everything is Wonderful and Mayhem.
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