Granta 124: Travel : Travel

by Freeman, John

• ISBN13: 9781905881697
• ISBN10: 190588169X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-06
• Publisher: Grove Press, Granta

Summary

Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of “disaster tourism.” Dinaw Mengustu gets at the heart of a resort town in western Africa. Pola Oloixarac resurrects the Viennese royals as they move their capital to Brazil. Nicole Krauss recounts finding her footing in Berlin. Former policeman-turned-detective-turned writer, A Yi, describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. And acclaimed short story writer Beatriz Bracher tells the tale of an anthropologist’s daughter trying to piece together her mother’s fatal trip into the Amazon. In this diverse collection of fiction, reportage, memoir, photography, and poetry – including new work by Charles Simic – Granta presents a panoramic view of our shared landscape and investigates our motivations to explore it. “One’s destination is never a place,” Henry Miller wrote, “but a new way of seeing things.”

Author Biography

John Freeman’s criticism has appeared in more than two hundred newspapers around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Times (UK), and The Wall Street Journal. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, THE TYRANNY OF EMAIL, was published in 2009. HOW TO READ A NOVELIST will be published in 2013. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Zyzzyva.