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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

2012, Nathan Englander

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a 2012 short story collection by the American writer Nathan Englander. It was first published on February 7, 2012 through Knopf and collects eight of Englander's short stories, including the title story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank." The title of the collection takes influence from Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, losing to Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son. Englander's collection was awarded the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

Critical reception for What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank has been mostly positive and the book received praise from the Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Jewish Book Council.

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