Etgar Keret is the author of three bestselling story collections, one novella, three graphic novels, and a children's book. His fiction has been translated into sixteen languages and has been the basis for more than forty short films (including the winner of an MTV prize). He lives and teaches in Tel Aviv.
"His enchantingly witty stories suggest that a keen intelligence
can still flourish even when the air is full of flying metal ...
Our best chance is that Etgar Keret will become a craze, a craze
for sanity." --Clive James "The best work of literature to come out
of Israel in the last five thousand years--better than Leviticus
and nearly as funny. Each page is a cut and polished gem. Do
yourself a favor, walk over to the counter and buy this book now."
--Gary Shteyngart, author of THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK
"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone
and effect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't--Etgar Keret
is a writer to be taken seriously." --Yann Martel, author of THE
LIFE OF PI "Keret's short stories are filled with antiheroes. There
are no brave Maccabees, no swashbuckling warriors. Instead, his
sketches dramatize the mundane details of daily life. "When you
wake up in the morning," he says, "before you've had your first cup
of coffee, what you think about is not, Why isn't there a
Palestinian state? You say, 'Why doesn't my girlfriend love me?' Or
'I hope somebody didn't steal my car.' "
Stories can be dreams, of a sort, and Keret's seem to promise that
there is more to life than Merkava tanks and suicide killers, more
even than nanotech or IPOs. His quirky collections--which have sold
more than 200,000 copies in Israel--offer a glimpse into the
Israeli subconscious. They satisfy jumbled, humble hopes--not the
high-blown fantasies of the original frontiersmen." --Kevin
Peraino, Newsweek "Etgar Keret's short stories are fierce, funny,
full of energy and insight, and at the same time they are often
deep, tragic, and very moving." --Amos Oz, author of A Tale of Love
and Darkness "To try to describe Keret's work in fewer words than
the work itself is a project perverse, paradoxical, modern, and
strange--in short, it is like an Etgar Keret story, except not as
funny and not as interesting. So I ask you to open the book and
read." --Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon "Etgar Keret is
the voice of young Israel . . . [His] stories still seemed to deal
with all the important things, friendship, sadness, fear . . .
Unlike anything else the country [is] producing." --Linda Grant,
The Independent
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