What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank

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"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"--

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• What we talk about when we talk about Anne FrankAlfred A. Knopf2012-01-01
• What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne FrankGeorge Weidenfeld & Nicholson2012-02-01
• What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne FrankPaperbackOrion Publishing Group, Limited2012-02-01
• What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne FrankOrion Publishing Group, Limited2013-01-01