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Nathan Englander - What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Released: 09/02/2012 Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Named one of The New Yorker's twenty writers to look out for this century, and referencing the great Raymond Carver in his title, standards are set high for Englander. Luckily, this collection doesn't fall short, as it probes all aspects of Jewish life and relationships with palpable intimacy and feeling. For more information visit: http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-anne-frank-ha… Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0297867695/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=cul… Watch:
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The New York Times“There is a dark undertow to many of these stories...” It’s the title story and “Everything I Know About My Family” that point to Mr. Englander’s evolution as a writer, his ability to fuse humor and moral seriousness into a seamless narrative...
 
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The Telegraph“Zingy, dialogue-driven tales...” You wouldn’t call Nathan Englander prolific – one novel and 17 short stories since 1999 – but he’s the sort of writer who makes you think “prolific” is nothing: better, surely, to be good, and these zingy, dialogue-driven tales...
 
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Financial Times“There seems little pre-cooked about any of his fictions...” The stories, though full of fantasy, humour and a sense of absurdity familiar to us from Sholem Aleichem to Woody Allen, transcend any antiquarian notion of Jewishness; they explore dilemmas that are, for want of a better word, universal...
 
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Guardian“A remarkable collection...” If there is an abiding theme, it is the way in which notions of right and wrong, guilt and innocence, victim and oppressor, shift over time as memories fade or new perspectives open up on old struggles...
 
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