The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 159463324X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 159463324X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
Originally published in 2004 by Toby Press.

Kneller's Happy Campers

Kneller's Happy Campers PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407051695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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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 - many of them are young, and most of them bear the marks of their death... bullet wounds, broken necks...(those who have over-dosed are known as 'Juliets'). When Mordy, our hero, discovers that his girlfriend from his life before has also 'offed' herself, he sets out to find her, and so follows a strange adventure... Full of the weird and wonderful characters, and the slightly surreal twist of events that we've come to expect from Etgar Keret, this novella is full of humour and comic flashes, but it is also wistful, longing for a better world and perfect love.

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698165713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Classic warped and wonderful stories from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best writers of fiction, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain—from a father’s first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught up in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. New to Riverhead’s list, these wildly inventive, uniquely humane stories are for fans of Etgar Keret’s inimitable style and readers of transforming, brilliant fiction.

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: FSG Originals
ISBN: 1466816201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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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 establish Etgar Keret—declared a "genius" by The New York Times—as one of the most original writers of his generation.

One Last Story and That's it

One Last Story and That's it PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788189020477
Category : Short stories, Hebrew
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The extraordianry collection has the kind of writing that could hook a lot of readers, including some who rarely open a book

Fly Already

Fly Already PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698166116
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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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, searing, and hilarious. 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... In "Arctic Lizard," a young boy narrates a post-apocalyptic version of the world where a youth army wages an unending war, rewarded by collecting prizes. A father tries to shield his son from the inevitable in "Fly Already." In "One Gram Short," a guy just wants to get a joint to impress a girl and ends up down a rabbit hole of chaos and heartache. And in the masterpiece "Pineapple Crush," two unlikely people connect through an evening smoke down by the beach, only to have one of them imagine a much deeper relationship. The thread that weaves these pieces together is our inability to communicate, to see so little of the world around us and to understand each other even less. Yet somehow, in these pages, through Etgar's deep love for humanity and our hapless existence, a bright light shines through and our universal connection to each other sparks alive.

Missing Kissinger

Missing Kissinger PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448104394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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'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 only its head; a young man has a mother and girlfriend who each demand that he gives them the other one's heart; while a Nobel Laureate asks an orphan to perform a very strange task. In Etgar Keret's blackly comic stories the unexpected can, and usually does, happen. They are clever, quick, sometimes violent and often intensely poignant. They are, in short, brilliant.

The Girl on the Fridge

The Girl on the Fridge PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374531058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Collects early short stories by the Israeli author, on various topics including war, relationships, and aging.

The Seven Good Years

The Seven Good Years PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698166000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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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 emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.

Pizzeria Kamikaze

Pizzeria Kamikaze PDF Author: Etgar Keret
Publisher: Boom! Studios
ISBN: 1613988583
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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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 love, loss, and escape. Mordy wanted to get away. Now condemned to an afterlife exclusively for all victims of suicide, he still has to attend a crappy job in a place no less crappy than the place he came from. When he discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend is there too, he embarks on much needed road trip through an absurdist and fantastical landscape to find her.