What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780297867708 (0297867709)
Publish date: February 28th 2012
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages no: 207
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Jewish,
Religion,
World War II,
Short Stories,
Holocaust,
Short Story Collection,
Judaism
I abandoned this a few months ago after reading the title story, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, but decided to give it another go. I enjoyed but wasn't wowed by any of the stories until Free Fruit for Young Widows, which was absolutely terrifying and heartbreaking.
To write a review about a book full of short stories is always more difficult for me, as it is to write one for a novel. There is the shortness that you get, to get used to the characters and the plot, there is also the problem that it contains a lot of stories, and it is rarely that one is as good ...
I like the way he writes about Jewish/Israeli history & cultural traditions & how they affect people's lives.
I feel like I should give this more stars and that I should have liked it more but, honestly, it just wasn't for me. There was nothing wrong with it, just not to my tastes.
I only read two of the stories, but with reach i felt empty. I felt a huge disconnect between the writers intent and the finished product. I did not, as i usually feel while reading short stories, and emptiness stirred by a desire for more. I did not feel the demand for more.... More dammit. as a wh...
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