What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

by Nathan Englander

Overview

A viciously funny and intelligently provocative play about family, friendship and faith, adapted by the author from his Pulitzer-finalist short story.

THE STAGE DEBUT AWARDS 2025: BEST WRITER, Nominated

Who in your life would you trust to keep you alive? And who do you know who would risk their own life for yours?

Debbie and Lauren were best friends until Lauren became ultra-Orthodox, changed her name and moved to Jerusalem. More than twenty years later, husbands in tow, their Florida reunion descends with painful but hilarious inevitability into an argument about parenthood, marriage, friendship and faith.

If you really want to ensure a Jewish future, you should be like me. Good, old-fashioned afraid.

Nathan Englander's serious comedy, adapted for the stage from his Pulitzer-finalist short story, received its European premiere at the Marylebone Theatre, London, in October 2024.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571394432
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	11/14/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	275 KB

About the Author

Nathan Englander is the author of two short story collections and three novels. His books have been translated into 22 languages, and, among other prizes, he was chosen as one of 20 Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. His play The Twenty-Seventh Man premiered at the Public Theater in 2012.
Nathan Englander was born in 1970. His first book, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a collection of short stories, was published in May 1999 and became an international bestseller. It earned him a PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nathan was selected as one of '20 Writers for the 21st Century' by The New Yorker, was awarded the Bard Fiction Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and numerous anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Anthology, and the Pushcart Prize. His first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, was published in 2007.