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Books by Etgar Keret






The Seven Good Years(Reprint)
A Memoir
by Etgar Keret, Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Mr Anthony Berris, Jessica Cohen
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-57600-3, ISBN: 0-399-57600-2

"A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan.The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.What e ..."






The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories(Reprint)
by Etgar Keret, Miriam Shlesinger, Margaret Weinberger-Rotman, Anthony Berris, Danielle Ofri
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-324-9, ISBN: 1-59463-324-X

"Etgar Keret's The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories stings and thrills with fierce fables of modern life. Set in landscapes ranging from "this armpit town outside Austin, Texas" to "this village in Uzbekistan that was built right smack at the mouth of Hell," these stories lay their plots' central tensions out plainly: "Dad wouldn't buy me a Bart Simpson doll," one begins. Then they take off like little roller coasters, car ..."






The Girl on the Fridge(1st Edition)
Stories
by Etgar Keret, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston
Paperback, 171 Pages, Published 2008 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53105-8, ISBN: 0-374-53105-6

"Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Keret, Etgar, 1 967- The girl on the fridge / Etgar Keret ; translated by Miriam Shlesinger [and] Sondra Silverston. — 1st American ed. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53105-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-374-53105-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Keret, Etgar, 1967- — Translations into English. I. Shlesinger, Miriam, 1947- II. Silverston, Sondra. III. Title. PJ5054.K375G5713 2008 892.4'36— dc ..."






The Nimrod Flipout(1st Edition)
Stories
by Etgar Keret, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston
Paperback, 167 Pages, Published 2006 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-22243-7, ISBN: 0-374-22243-6

"From Israel's most popular and acclaimed young writer--"Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren't" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi) Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly, these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she ..."






Suddenly, a Knock on the Door(Reprint)
Stories
by Etgar Keret, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, Nathan Englander
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Fsg Originals
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53333-5, ISBN: 0-374-53333-4

"Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret's new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world. Overflowing with absurdity, humor, sadness, and compassion, the tales in Suddenly, a Knock on the Door e ..."






Tel Aviv Noir
(Akashic Noir)
by Etgar Keret, Assaf Gavron, Gai Ad, Shimon Adaf, Gon Ben Ari, Silje Bekeng, Alex Epstein, Julia Fermentto, Yardenne Greenspan, Matan Hermoni, Yoav Katz, Deakla Keydar, Gadi Taub, Lavie Tidhar
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2014 by Akashic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-154-7, ISBN: 1-61775-154-5

"Gon Ben Ari's story "Clear Recent History" has been named a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story! "This consistently strong collection showcases a group of Israeli writers who are not well known in the U.S. Definitely one of the highlights in the long-running Akashic series."--"Booklist," Starred review "May be the very best in a generally solid series....This collection escapes the limi ..."






Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub(Illustrated)
by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil, Sondra Silverston
Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 2020 by Triangle Square
ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-931-7, ISBN: 1-60980-931-9

"The first children's book to appear in English by the award-winning Israeli master storytellerWhat happens when a tired boy with a fertile imagination is left to fend for himself at the zoo? Well, if his father is too busy to play and must talk business on his phone, and it's close to naptime, then ... a lot. After freeing sad animals from their cages, the boy takes a ride in an airship with an old turtle and a lazy rhinoceros. Once on ..."






Gaza Blues(1st Edition)
Different Stories
by Etgar Keret, Samir El-Youssef
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2004 by David Paul
ISBN-13: 978-0-9540542-4-3, ISBN: 0-9540542-4-5

"Two writers, Israeli Etgar Keret and Palestinian Samir El-youssef, have engaged in a challenging and provocative artistic collaboration, producing a book of short stories and a novella exploring different aspects of a fraught and complex ..."






Fly Already(Reprint)
Stories
by Etgar Keret, Nathan Englander, Jessica Cohen, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, Yardenne Greenspan
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-327-0, ISBN: 1-59463-327-4

"From a "genius" (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heart-breaking collection. "There is sweetheartedness and wisdom and eloquence and transcendence in his stories because these virtues exist in abundance in Etgar himself... I am very happy that Etgar and his work are in the world, making things better." --George Saunders There's no one like Etgar Keret. His stories take place at the crossroads of the fantastical ..."






The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories(1st Edition)
by Etgar Keret
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2004 by Toby Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-59264-105-5, ISBN: 1-59264-105-9

"Etgar Keret's The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories stings and thrills with fierce fables of modern life. Set in landscapes ranging from "this armpit town outside Austin, Texas" to "this village in Uzbekistan that was built right smack at the mouth of Hell," these stories lay their plots' central tensions out plainly: "Dad wouldn't buy me a Bart Simpson doll," one begins. Then they take off like little roller coasters, c ..."






Four Stories
(The B. G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies)
by Etgar Keret, Ken Frieden
Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2010 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-8156-4, ISBN: 0-8156-8156-9

"This booklet includes a lecture called ""Second Generation"" and four remarkable short stories by Etgar Keret: ""Asthma Attack,"" ""Shoes,"" ""Siren,"" and ""Foreign Language,"" the last of which has never before appeared in the United States. Openly discussing his family background for the first time, Keret brings to life the confused experience of growing up as an Israeli child of Holocaust survivors. One of Israel's leading voices in ..."






The Seven Good Years
by Etgar Keret
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by Granta Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78378-047-1, ISBN: 1-78378-047-9

"A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller.The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.What emerges from this dark reality is a ..."






The Seven Good Years(1st Edition)
A Memoir
by Etgar Keret, Sondra Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen, Anthony Berris
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-326-3, ISBN: 1-59463-326-6

"A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a genius (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What e ..."






Missing Kissinger
by Etgar Keret
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage Books
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-949816-2, ISBN: 0-09-949816-2

"Etgar Keret’s stories are quick, brief and precise — unhesitatingly moving. They are also hilarious and off-the-wall, yet dark, sometimes violent, and often intensely poignant: a powerful new collection from Israel’s best-selling author."






Fly Already
Stories
by Etgar Keret
224 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin
ISBN-13: 978-0-698-16611-0, ISBN: 0-698-16611-6

"His characters grapple with parenthood and family, war and games, marijuana and cake, memory and love. These stories never go to the expected place, but always surprise, entertain, and move."






Pizzeria Kamikaze
by Etgar Keret
112 Pages, Published 2018 by Boom! Studios
ISBN-13: 978-1-61398-858-9, ISBN: 1-61398-858-3

"Presented for the first time in full color, award-winning writer Etgar Keret (The Seven Good Years) and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Asaf Hanuka’s (The Realist) powerful graphic novel, Pizzeria Kamikaze, is a most unexpected story of ..."






The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories
by Etgar Keret
192 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin
ISBN-13: 978-0-698-16571-7, ISBN: 0-698-16571-3

"“I'll take it to Alon,” Yuval volunteered. “We live on the same block.” “And I'll take it to Jacob,” Dikla snapped before anyone else got a chance. Everyone knows she has the hots for Jakie. “And I'll take it to Jacob,” Meyer Subban mimicked, and ..."






The Seven Good Years
A Memoir
by Etgar Keret
192 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin
ISBN-13: 978-0-698-16600-4, ISBN: 0-698-16600-0

"True, I would rather have found a house instead of a bank or a field. But a bank, I thought, was better than nothing. During my last visit to Poland a few weeks ago, for a book festival in another part of the country, a charming photographer named Elżbieta Lempp asked if she could take my picture. I agreed happily. She photographed me in a café, where I was waiting for my reading to take place, and on returning to Israel, I found t ..."






Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
Stories
by Etgar Keret
208 Pages, Published 2012 by Fsg Originals
ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-1620-6, ISBN: 1-4668-1620-1

"Stories Etgar Keret. Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Etgar Keret is the author of six bestselling story collections. His writing has been ... Jellyfish, his first movie as a director along with his wife, Shira Geffen, won the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes in 2007. Wristcutters: A Love Story, a film based on his novella Kneller's Happy Campers, premiered at Sundance in 2006. In 2010 he was named a ..."






Missing Kissinger
by Etgar Keret
224 Pages, Published 2011 by Random House
ISBN-13: 978-1-4481-0439-0, ISBN: 1-4481-0439-4

"'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 At a children's tea party, a magician tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but takes out ..."



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