<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While</i> deals with absence and presence, immediacy and distance in a time when these concepts are increasingly troubled.</b><p></p>Our 2021 winter issue features <b>Rory Gleeson</b> on an Italian doctor who was at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak; <b>Lindsey Hilsum</b>, author of the award-winning <i>In Extremis</i>, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; and photography by <b>Gus Palmer</b> of an Islamic morgue in London, with an introduction by <b>Poppy Sebag-Montefiore</b>. Even more memoir comes from <b>Ian Jack</b> on the toxic slag heaps of Glasgow and the aristocratic lives built on them and <b>Vidyan Ravinthiran</b> on the civil war in Sri Lanka. A photoessay by <b>Fergus Thomas</b> of bareback horse racing in the Colville Reservation is accompanied by an interview with its subject, <b>Duane Hall</b>.</p><p>Plus, an excerpt from <b>Eva Baltasar</b>'s <i>Permafrost</i>, translated from the Catalan by <b>Julia Sanches</b>; a new story by <b>Paul Dalla Rosa</b>, previously shortlisted for the 2019 <i>Sunday Times</i> Audible Short Story Award; an extract from the new novel by <b>Gwendoline Riley</b>, author of <i>First Love</i>; fiction by <b>Diaa Jubaili</b>, translated from the Arabic by Chip Rossetti; and fiction set in Philadelphia from <b>Dan Shurley</b>.</p><p>Plus, poetry by<b> Jason Allen-Paisant</b>, <b> Jesse Darling </b>and <b>Nate Duke.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sigrid Rausing</b> is Editor and Publisher of <i>Granta </i>magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the author of <i>History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia </i>and the memoirs <i>Everything is Wonderful </i>and <i>Mayhem</i>.
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