The What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a 2012 short story collection by Nathan Englander. It was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and won the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
The stories in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank are set in locales as varied as Israel, Europe, South America, and the United States. They explore themes of religious faith and doubt, love and loss, assimilation and plurality. In the title story, a group of friends in Jerusalem discusses the meaning of Anne Frank's diary, while in "The Legend of Pinokl" a Hasidic man in Brooklyn tells his grandson the story of a golem who saved his life during the Holocaust. Other stories explore the lives of secular Jews in America, a gay couple in Buenos Aires, and an Orthodox Jew who has left his community. Critics praised Englander's use of humor and his ability to evoke both the quotidian and the metaphysical. They also lauded his exploration of Jewish identity in a globalized world.
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