"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 EtgarKeret, 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 EtgarKeret, 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 EtgarKeret 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 ..."
"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 EtgarKeret 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 EtgarKeret 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 EtgarKeret 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 ..."
"“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 EtgarKeret 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 ..."
"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 EtgarKeret 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 ..."