In this novella by the acclaimed author of The Medusa Tree and The Deadwood Beetle, an elderly Jewish woman tells an Arabic student who has come to interview her for a research project an incredible tale: that she is Anne Frank, the author of The Diary of a Young Girl and the most famous victim of Hitler’s Germany. As the interview progresses, tensions grow between the pair as they listen to each other’s stories, yet struggle to truly hear each other.
A new work of fiction from an author the New York Times has described as “haunting.”