What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank / Nathan Englander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Englander, Nathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Short stories.

Jewish fiction.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf, 2012.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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

The reader

Free fruit for young widows.

ISBN:

9780307958709

0307958701

OCLC:

738339628