TY - BOOK AU - Englander,Natan TI - What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank: stories T2 - A Borzoi book SN - 9780307958709 AV - PS3555.N424 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, NY [u.a.] PB - Knopf KW - Class of Fall 2009 KW - Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction KW - Fellow N2 - "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"-- ER -