"What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank vividly displays the humor, complexity, and edge that we've come to expect from Nathan Englander's fiction-always animated by a deep, vibrant core of historical resonance." And this collection is the very best of the best.” Englander is, to me, the modern master of the form. This is deft, engrossing, deeply satisfying work.
These are stories that transport you into other lives, other dreams. “Nathan Englander writes the stories I am always hoping for, searching for. Englander is, quite simply, one of the very best we have.” Put him alongside Singer, Carver, and Munro. In Englander’s hands, storytelling is a transformative act. “It takes an exceptional combination of moral humility and moral assurance to integrate fine-grained comedy and large-scale tragedy as daringly as Nathan Englander does.” Englander’s latest hooks you with the same irresistible intimacy, immediacy and deliciousness of stumbling in on a heated altercation that is absolutely none of your business it’s what great fiction is all about.” “A resounding testament to the power of the short story from a master of the form. Certifiable masterpieces of contemporary short-story art.” “Englander’s new collection of stories tells the tangled truth of life in prose that, as ever, surprises the reader with its gnarled beauty. Praise for Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank 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.īeautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander’s work is a revelation. 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. “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. “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is a small, sharp study in evil, lovingly told by a father to a son. In the outlandishly dark “Camp Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group of geriatric campers in a bucolic summer enclave. 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. 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.
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