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Etgar Keret
Presents tales that feature characters as: a man who barges into a writer’s house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to…
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A brilliant new collection of stories from Etgar Keret, a master of the genre.
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From the man the New Yorker declared ‘a genius’, here is a ridiculously enjoyable, tragicomic collection of essays about raising a son and losing a father
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…
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In this collection of brilliant, bite-sized satiric tales, Israel’s bestselling Etgar Keret chronicles the strange ironies that suffuse his characters’ lives.
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The first English-language children’s book from the award-winning master storyteller.
‘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…
Kneller’s Happy Campers is a strange, dark but funny tale set in a world very much like our own but it’s an afterlife populated by people who have killed themselves…
A bestseller in Israel, this volume of short stories–from a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier to a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish–is an extraordinary collection from the…
A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad–such are the…
From a genius (New York Times) storyteller: a new, subversive, hilarious, heartbreaking collection. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of…
Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.
Keret and Gavron masterfully assemble some of Israel’s top contemporary writers into a compulsively readable collection.
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Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize.
You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don’t worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You’re…
Part Kafka, part Vonnegut, with the concerns and comedic delivery of Woody Allen, Etgar Keret is a brilliant and original master of the short story. Hilarious, witty, and always unusual…
Radical, witty and always unusual, declared a ‘genius’ by the New York Times, Keret brings all of his prodigious talent to bear in this bestselling collection. A man barges into…
