Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189020471
Description
REVIEWS
The extraordinary collection, has the kind of writing that could hook a lot of readers, including some who rarely open a book (Keret) takes readers on a trip full of insight.
-Boston Globe
Wonderfully surreal, laugh-out-loud-funny stories-all of them gems from a singular storyteller.
-Elle Magazine
Keret’s stories flick between the banal and the tragic with a satirist’s instinct for the telling detail, the self-revealing comment or gesture. But he is also committed to what (Ted Hughes terms the act of metamorphosis, the unendurable intensity that lifts the whole episode onto the supernatural or divine plane, and it is this that makes his work exceptional.
-Times Literary Supplement
Contents
The Story about A Bus Driver who Wanted to be God
Hole in the Wall
Breaking the Pig
The Flying Santinis
Korbi’s Girl
Shoes
Missing Kissinger
Rabin’s Dead
Siren
Good Intentions
Katzenstein
One Last Story and That’s It
Jetlag
The Son of the Head of the Mossad
Pipes
Shoshi 1
Shoshi 2
Shoshi 3
Sidewalks
Han’s Death Smile
The Monkey’s Uncle
Clean Shave
The Hollow Men
The World Champion
Crazyglue