He made his debut in 1999 with the collection of short stories For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the following year he won the PEN / Malamud Award. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and released his debut novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, set in 1976 Argentina. With the book What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction in 2012 and won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Dinner at the Center of the Earth, his second novel, was published in 2017, and kaddish.com followed in 2019. In the same year, he received the Fernanda Pivano award.