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# Granta 112: Pakistan (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

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        			Passionate and compelling, Granta 112: Pakistan offers an intelligent, inside look at a country we hear about every day, but remain ignorant of nonetheless. -- Republic of Brown, September 24, 2010More than anything else, Granta Pakistan is a warning against stereotyping a nation or losing sight of the many co-existing realities that make it what it is....[the pieces] are about using high-quality writing to probe the heart of a people and a culture, and to explore the often uneasy relationship between the two. -- Sunday Guardian, New Dehli, Sept 12, 2010Aslam's novella, "Leila in the Wilderness", one of the longest pieces in Granta's commissioning history which took the award-winning writer 15-years of rumination and rough drafts, is among the strongest offerings. Aslam manipulates the old subcontinental legend of star-crossed lovers, Leila and Qes, to dramatise the age-old prejudices towards the birth of girl babies that survive to this day in Pakistan. The result is spectacular, reminiscent of Angela Carter's feminist fairytales in The Bloody Chamber in its imaginative revisionism. He even employs magic realism to marry ancient legend with the post-9/11 politics of the here and now. --Independent, September 17, 2010Torn between the modern and medieval worlds, Pakistan is a painful place. The violence in these stories speaks of a new country struggling to be born. When it emerges, it may not be a pretty sight. -- Economist, September 16, 2010Some of the country's best-known writers appear alongside complete newcomers (one rookie is 79), and as they try to understand how it all went so wrong, the Islamization campaign of the military dictator Zia-ul-Haq in the 1980s lurks in the background.... For every bomb that goes off, there is an internal reaction. Call it creativity. Granta's anthology is a sure-footed portrait of this internal implosion. -- Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2010A stunning collection that makes a convincing case that Pakistan's writers cannot be missed.  --The Daily Beast, September 24, 2010
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			John Freeman's criticism has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail, was published in 2009.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing
*by O***A on 23 February 2016*

Love Granta, and within this issue there are great Muslim writers

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Recommended
*by F***I on 18 March 2013*

Granta's issue on Pakistan features all the major contemporary writers coming from Pakistan and others who have been based in Pakistan. These short stories, essays, poems are fantastic reads - I finished the book in one day. Definitely worth reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Engrossing
*by I***X on 1 September 2011*

This edition of Granta is thought provoking and does encompass a wide range of perspectives.The writing is excellent and in particular the essay on collective identity and Jinnah is superb.The complex nature of contemporary Pakistan is reflected in these essays.Worth an investment of four or five hours of your time.

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