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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Nathan Englander
Knopf
February 2012
On Sale: February 7, 2012
224 pages ISBN: 0307958701 EAN: 9780307958709 Kindle: B005KB0U4K Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and
short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young
author grappling with the great questions of modern life,
with a command of language and the imagination that place
Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American
fiction. The title story, inspired by Raymond
Carver’s masterpiece, is a provocative portrait of two
marriages in which the Holocaust is played out as a
devastating parlor game. In the outlandishly dark “Camp
Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of
geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. “Free Fruit
for Young Widows” is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly
told by a father to a son. “Sister Hills” chronicles the
history of Israel’s settlements from the eve of the Yom
Kippur War through the present, a political fable
constructed around the tale of two mothers who strike a
terrible bargain to save a child. Marking a return to two of
Englander’s classic themes, “Peep Show” and “How We Avenged
the Blums” wrestle with sexual longing and ingenuity in the
face of adversity and peril. And “Everything I Know About My
Family on My Mother’s Side” is suffused with an intimacy and
tenderness that break new ground for a writer who seems
constantly to be expanding the parameters of what he can
achieve in the short form. Beautiful and
courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander’s work is a
revelation.
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