Granta 77: What We Think of America. [Spring 2002].

Paperback. 8vo. 256pp. Pictorial stiff card wraps. With b/w photos. Notes on Contributors. With an excerpt from J.M. Coetzee's novel Youth, a searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London, signed by the Author at his contribution.

In light of the horrific events of 9/11, Granta has asked twenty distinguished writers across the world to describe how America has affected them – culturally, politically, economically, as citizens, as writers, as children and as adults. They include: Hanan al-Shaykh, Ian Buruma, Amit Chaudhuri, Haim Chertok, Aleksa Djilas, Ariel Dorfman, Benoît Duteurtre, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, John Gray, Ramachandra Guha, Lu Gusun, James Hamilton-Paterson, Michael Ignatieff, Ivan Klíma, Doris Lessing, Yang Lian, David Malouf, Fintan O'Toole, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, Karim Raslan, Raja Shehadeh, Tara Bray Smith, and Ahdaf Soueif.

From elsewhere: "Jihadis" by Pankaj Mishra; "Youth" by J.M. Coetzee; "The Habit" by Francis Spufford; "Autumn in Afghanistan" a colour photo essay by Thomas Dworzak; "Have You Decided to Love Me Yet?" by Blake Morrison; "Mecca" by Ziauddin Sardar. "This small, intelligent collection should be read by anyone who is distressed at the gap in comprehension that is threatening to open between Americans and their non-American friends." –The Economist