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What we Talk About When we Talk About Anne Frank

Englander, Nathan. Book - 2012 Fiction, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Englander, Nathan 3 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.4 out of 5

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What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank -- Sister hills -- How we avenged the Blums -- Peep show -- Everything I know about my family on my mother's side -- Camp Sundown -- Reader -- Free fruit for young widows.
"The author of the sensational national best seller For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank establishes Nathan Englander beyond all doubt as the heir to Roth, Malamud, and Babel. A tour de force. The title story, inspired by Carver's masterpiece, is a comic classic, a provocative portrait of two marriages in which the holocaust is played out as a devastating parlor game. "Camp Sundown" is an outlandishly dark story of vigilante justice undertaken by a troop of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave who recognize a fellow vacationer as a former Nazi guard. "Free Fruit for Young Widows" is a small, sharp study in evil. "Sister Hills" chronicles the history of the Israeli settlements from the eve of the Yom Kippur war through the present, a political story constructed around the tale of two mothers who strike a terrible bargain to save a child. A great leap forward from one of our most audacious and important writers, and a sensational literary event"-- Provided by publisher.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Knopf, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 207 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307958709
0307958701

SUBJECTS
Short stories.
Jewish fiction.