Granta 134

Who collects the bodies of the soldiers who die in the endless conflict in Afghanistan? What do children make of war, or the mental illness of their siblings? Did you ever consider the meaning of divorce in Chile, or informants in Ceausescu's Romania? Our fiction in this issue, by Azam Ahmed , George Makana Clark , Herta M�ller , Eric Puchner , David Rakoff and Alejandro Zambra , chronicles conflict of many different kinds. Rachel Cusk reflects on being sent to Coventry; Peter Pomerantsev examin