by Bill Buford · Granta Publications · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140140873
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«Granta 48: Africa» is issue 48 of the literary magazine Granta, edited by Bill Buford, in paperback (254 pages, in English).
The issue brings together twelve texts portraying the profound changes Africa is undergoing, with reportage from Liberia, Rwanda, Malawi, Angola, Ethiopia and South Africa. It includes contributions by Paul Theroux, Ryszard Kapuściński, William Finnegan and Sousa Jamba, plus William Boyd's short novel about an African filmmaker who succeeds.
Issue 48 of the Granta: The Magazine of New Writing series. The work was originally published in 1994.
For readers interested in essays, travel literature and narrative journalism on African reality.
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
