(P/B) GRANTA 109

Παρουσίαση

Most of us spend more time at work than anywhere else, but are our lives defined by the work that we do? Do our jobs reflect our passions and personality, or are they just a means to an end, a necessary evil to pay for the weekends? From the jobless to the workaholics, from Peru to Essex to Rwanda, Granta 109 tells the stories of how and why we work, and whether or not work has the power to make us who we are. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Martin Kimani examines the work of war as farmers take up arms in Rwanda
Daniel Alarcon infiltrates the extraordinary parallel world of book pirating in Peru
Steven Hall visits the world’s pre-eminent robotics lab
Yiyun Li recalls a job transcribing news articles for the Chinese Communist Party
Salman Rushdie meditates on sloth
Ruchir Joshi finds out how a transforming economy is affecting the India’s workers
Aminatta Forna considers why caring for animals is essential to being human
Colum McCann remembers his father, a newspaper man
Kent Haruf writes a moving portrait of a patient he met while working in a hospice
and
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse photograph Johannesburg’s Ponte City Apartments
Also extracts from Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s forthcoming memoir of his childhood in a rural, polygamous Kenyan household and Peter Stothard’s new book remembering his childhood in the Marconi work village in Essex
PLUS: New fiction from Julian Barnes, Jim Crace, Joshua Ferris, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Brad Watson
and a cover designed by Jon Gray