A sensational literary event: the author of the national best seller For the Relief of Unbearable Urges returns with a commanding new collection of short stories that establishes him 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. "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 the Israeli 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....A great leap forward from one of our most audacious and important writers.

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is Nathan Englander's wisest, funniest, bravest, and most beautiful book." --Jonathan Safran Foer