Granta 42: Krauts! [Winter 1992].

Paperback. 8vo. 256pp. Pictorial stiff card wraps. With b/w photos. Notes on Contributors.

Rubbing to edges, else Fine.

A quarterly magazine of new writing, this issue focusing on Germany post re-unification, and still healing the wounds of the past while struggling with the new sores of racism and fear of immigrants.

Contents: "German Efficiency" by Heinrich Böll; "The Great Migration" by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Losing the War: "Liberation Day" by Christa Wolf; "Buchenwald" by Ian Buruma; The German Character: "Love in Germany" by Doris Dörrie; "Losses" by Günter Grass; "Berlin by Night" by Ed Kashi; The East German Character: "Zonophobia" by Monika Maron; "Halle by Day" by Hans Joachim Ellerbrock; "The Stone-thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt" by Max Thomas Mehr and Regine Sylvester; "A Hippy Among Communists" by Klaus Schlesinger; The Virtues of Communism: "Shaking Hands with the Zeitgeist" by Wolf Biermann; As Seen by Foreigners: "The Devil's Kitchen" by Russell Hoban; "The Table" by Pawel Huelle; "Lederhosen" by Haruki Murakami; "Ohne Mich: Why I Shall Never Return to Germany" by Martha Gellhorn; "Baghdad Diary" by Nuha Al-Radi; Notes from Abroad: What Used to Be Called Yugoslavia: "Zagreb" by Dubravka Ugrešić; and "Dobrinja" by Nedžad Ibrišimović.

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