What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
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Nathan Englander
An astonishing tour de force: the author of the national bestseller For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of stories that affirms him without a doubt as heir to Roth, Malamud, and Babel, and an author at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
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. "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 the Israeli 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. Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander's work is a revelation.