What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank - 9780307958709
Un libro in lingua di Nathan Englander edito da Random House Inc, 2012
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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.
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. In the outlandishly dark “Camp Sundown” vigilante justice is undertaken by a group 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 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. 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. 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.
Beautiful and courageous, funny and achingly sad, Englander's work is a revelation.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Nathan Englander
- Editore: Random House Inc
- Collana: Random House Inc (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 07 Febbraio '12
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : FICTION / Short Stories (single author) bisacs FICTION / Jewish. bisacs FICTION / Literary. bisacs
- Pagine: 207
- ISBN-10: 0307958701
- EAN-13: 9780307958709