What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Recensie(s)

Jonathan Franzen: 'It takes an exceptional combination of moral humility and moral assurance to integrate fine-grained comedy and large-scale tragedy as daringly as Nathan Englander does. His writing is liberal in every good sense of the word'


Dave Eggers: 'Nathan Englander is one of our most consistently brilliant, bold and funny writers - that part isn't really in doubt - but the depth of his feeling is the thing that separates him from just about everyone'


Jennifer Egan: 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Ann Frank vividly displays the humor, complexity, and edge that we've come to expect from Nathan Englander's fiction - always animated by a deep, vibrant core of historical resonance'


Jonathan Safran Foer: 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is Nathan Englander's wisest, funniest, bravest and most beautiful book. It overflows with revelations and gems'


Téa Obreht: 'A resounding testament to the power of the short story from a master of the form. Englander's latest hooks you with the same irresistible intimacy, immediacy and deliciousness of stumbling in on a heated altercation that is absolutely none of your business; it's what great fiction is all about'


Colum McCann: 'This collection is a jolt of electricity through the heart, the head, the whole body nation... In Englander's hands, story-telling is a transformative act. Put him alongside Singer, Carver and Munro. Englander is, quite simply, one of the very best we have'


Gary Shteyngart: 'Nathan Englander is a master of the short story and one of the great voices of our time… The best work yet from a true American treasure'


Michael Chabon: 'Certifiable masterpieces of contemporary short story art'


Geraldine Brooks: 'Nathan Englander writes the stories I am always hoping for, searching for. These are stories that transport you into other lives, other dreams. This is deft, engrossing, deeply satisfying work. Englander is, to me, the modern master of the form. And this collection is the very best of the best.'