Fifty

Author(s)

    • Buford, Bill

Bibliographic Information

Fifty

editor, Bill Buford

(Granta, 50)

Granta Publications distributed by Penguin Books, 1995

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

In 1985, Granta published James Fenton's extraordinary - and now legendary - account of the fall of Saigon. Twenty years after the first tank entered the city, four writers examine the aftermath of that terrible war. Philip Gourevitch visits refugee camps across Southeast Asia and meets the boat people fleeing the peace. Tran Vu describes his escape from Vietnam by sea, crammed in a tiny hold with three hundred others: the sharks, the shipwreck, the pirates. Paul Eggers exposes the arrogance and self-loathing of the white-bastard 'saviours' who run the UN refugee camps. And from Bao Ninh, a story about a ghost who still haunts the battlefields.

Table of Contents

  • Vietnam
  • the boat people, Philip Gourevitch
  • the Coral Reef, Tran Vu
  • saviours, Paul Eggers
  • savage winds, Bao Ninh
  • Hanoi, 1994, Ed Grazda
  • upriver, Redmond O'Hanlon
  • Gnossienne, Julian Barnes
  • never saw Brazil, William Boyd
  • the Fourth of July, Richard Ford
  • the hole, Romesh Gunesekera
  • Hemingway in Cuba, Norman Lewis
  • Shanghai Express, Germaine Greer
  • Ash Golden Kids comeback, Timothy Garton Ash.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA35420185
  • ISBN
    • 014014109X
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth
  • Pages/Volumes
    253 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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