What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank - Nathan Englander
KORTE INHOUD
"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 impo...
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Small red permanent marker dot on bottom cut. [Auteur: Englander, Nathan] [Pagina's: 207] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Alfred A. Knopf] [Jaar: 2012] [Titel: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories]
