Acclaimed as an astonishing debut, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a collection of delightfully irreverent stories which range from Stalin's Russia to contemporary New York.Englander's voice is distinctively his own - daring, funny and exuberant, keenly attuned to both the absurdities of life and its undertow of sadness and disappointment.' New York Times

Author Biography

Nathan Englander was born in New York in 1970. His short fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and numerous anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Prize Stories. Englander's story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, earned him a PEN/Malamud Award among many other accolades. He lives in New York.